#vita

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#fragile #get #help #most #need

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#best #best way #delight #drop #exciting

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship. ↗

— Donna Rice

#agreed #brief #confront #ending #face-to-face

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#only #over #persist #shows #start

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. ↗

— Anthony Caro

#in other words #other #respond #sculpture #sees

Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#courage #desire #determination #energy #enthusiasm

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do. ↗

— Golda Meir

#inevitability #old-age #age

Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember but she knew she had been “sympathetic” from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said about Virginia, “She dislikes the possessiveness and love of domination in men. In fact she dislikes the quality of masculinity. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#vanessa-bell #virginia-woolf #vita-sacksville-west #age

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older