Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes (7 quotations)
1. Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
2. I grow more intense as I age. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
3. It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
4. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
5. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
6. The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
7. You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
2. I grow more intense as I age. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
3. It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
4. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
5. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
6. The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
7. You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
