The end is nothing, the road is all. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: journey path destination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: universe beginnings process Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women — a new job, a new town, a divorce — which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves. —Nadine Gordimer More about this quote Tags: attention progress aging change emotion surprise distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More about this quote Tags: time age shock getting old Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. —Caroline Schoeder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children. —Ray Romano More about this quote Tags: children parenthood sex parenting sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What did we care . . . where we sat or how we lived, when youth throbbed hot in our veins, and our souls were all aflame with the possibilities of life? —Arthur Conan Doyle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage. —Tom Arnold More about this quote Tags: perspective childhood divorce excitement separation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be." . . . This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: now generations experience world youth old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: children childhood age forgetting growing up Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend once addressed the old Carl Jung as follows: "Herr Professor, you are so clever. Could you please tell me the shortest path to my life's goal?" Without a moment's hesitation Jung replied, "The detour! —Richard Kehl More about this quote Tags: effort goals detour Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. —Dave Barry More about this quote Tags: maturity youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. A man who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He has only garnered weariness. —Paul Eldridge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In this day and age, some turn eighteen and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions. —Orlando McGuire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email