It's not my fault when I have a senior moment any more than it was my fault when my hair turned gray. I'm just a human being, after all. I've had a lifetime of junior moments, when one word follows another in logical -- and boring -- succession, when each action leads to the next appropriate action. For countless years, I have remembered to bring the pencil with me when I go downstairs to use the pencil sharpener. I think I've earned the right to break free from the imprisonment of sequential thinking.
A senior moment is a stop sign on the road to life. It could even be a leg up toward enlightenment. So I stay calm, let the engine idle, and enjoy the scenery. What happens next will be revealed in due course.
-- Susan Moon
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a
species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make
counter-evolutionary choices.
– Jared Diamond
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign
country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know
where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting
darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where
you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love
with.
-- Pico Iyer
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around
you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely
places.
--Roald Dahl
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to
keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new
lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.
—Oprah Winfrey
...if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad...
-- Jane Austen
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned,
starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected
from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to
the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only
possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result —
eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
-- Bill Bryson
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not
natural. It can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human
beings.
-- Nelson Mandela
You can’t run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero’s journey.
-- Anne Lamott
I
am a great believer in the seasons. Even here in my own world, I have
no relish for sweet corn in January or strawberries in November.
-- Pearl S. Buck
