Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. ... - Florida Scott-Maxwell

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I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life does not acommodate 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.

Container, Doe, Fruition, Meant, Would Be

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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Family, Improvement, Matter, Mom, Mothers Day, Signs

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

Heals, Joy, Law, Love Is, Truth

You need only claim the events 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. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?

Age, Claim, Fierce, Reality, Take, Together

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. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.

Conviction, Indulge In, Interesting, Serene, Surprise, Years

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