#aging

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus. ↗

— John Banville

#age

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#friendship #memories #age

I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#businesses #diversity #doing #economy #encouraging

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#help #help people #i #music #people

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us. ↗

— Ed Belfour

#discouraging #frustrated #go #just #like

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#around #baggage #being #could #devote

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#growing-old #women #age

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#beauty #age