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“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”
― Milan Kundera

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe