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“The very same things that makes some unhappy, are making others happy. It is not the things. It is the way you are thinking about them. You are the one making yourself unhappy or happy. You are the force.”

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“She believed in the miraculous. Or she had, until she reached an age when, all of a sudden, she realized that the life she was living was, in fact, her life. The clay of her being, so long infinitely malleable, had been formed, hardened into what now seemed a palpable, unchanging object, a shell she inhabited.”

Life Wisdom Age Miraculous Shell

Book:A Reliable Wife

Source: A Reliable Wife

“Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Weight or Age Don’t Say… Your weight and age are a major factor in your style decisions. Do Say… We are not concerned with your weight or age, since this doesn’t matter. Let’s look at your measurements and find the perfect looks for your body shape and style you want to project.”

Inspirational Age Fashion Style Communication Weight Appearance Self Confidence Cindy Ann Peterson Image Consultant

Book:My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing.”

Age Experience

Book:A Pale View of Hills

Source: A Pale View of Hills

“The denial of age in America culminates in the prolongevity movement, which hopes to abolish old age altogether. But the dread of age originates not in the "cult of youth" but in a cult of the self. Not only in its narcissistic indifference to future generations but in its grandiose vision of a technological utopia without old age, the prolongevity movement exemplifies the fantasy of "absolute, sadistic power" which, according to Kohut, so deeply colors the narcissistic outlook. Pathological in its psychological origins and inspiration, superstitious in its faith in medical deliverance, the prolongevity movement expresses in characteristic form the anxieties of a culture that believes it has no future.”

Age Utopia

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Sweet sixteen is when the claws come out.”

Age Revenge Sixteen Claws

Book:Foul Is Fair

Source: Foul Is Fair

“Old butterflies should have the sense to die while the summer sun is shining,”

Age Death Sunshine

Book:Gösta Berling's Saga

Source: Gösta Berling's Saga

“Maybe I’m a bad writer.” “No. You’re a very good writer. Kalipso was a chef d’oeuvre. So beautiful, Arthur. I admired it a lot.” Now Less is stumped. He probes his weaknesses. Too magniloquent? Too spoony? “Too old?” he ventures. “We’re all over fifty, Arthur. It’s not that you’re a bad writer.” Finley pauses for effect. “It’s that you’re a bad gay.”

Writing Age Gay

Book:Less

Source: Less

“Old trees want to hurt you. It doesn't matter if you're snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, or just taking a walk in the woods. Old trees want to hurt you, and I think they'd kill you if they could.”

Age Nature Horror Trees

Book:The Mist

Source: The Mist

“Somehow I had reached an age when being in love with a beautiful woman was beyond my reach because I was now bald and my face was full of wrinkles, yet the cats loved me the way girls used to love me when I was young.”

Love Age Judgement Cats

Book:All My Cats

Source: All My Cats

“You know, when you're seventeen, everything feels like the end of the world. Or the beginning of the world. And that's an awesome thing.”

Age Youth Naivety

Book:The Upside of Unrequited

Source: The Upside of Unrequited

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