Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.
I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.