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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
    tags: adulthood, ageism, children, experience, fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood, parenting, parents
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “The older person is necessarily more experienced at life, but is not necessarily more wise, or even just wise.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: age, ageism, foolish, life, old, old-age, pessimism, stupidity, wisdom
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    Rebecca Makkai
    “Ageism is the only self-correcting prejudice, isn’t it?”
    ― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
    tags: ageism
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: age, humor, old, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: age
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    Doris Lessing
    “As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
    ― Doris Lessing
    tags: age
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    Oscar Wilde
    “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: age, wisdom
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    Alex Shakar
    “Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
    ― Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
    tags: age, maturity
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    Shelley Winters
    “I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
    ― Shelley Winters
    tags: acting, age, beauty, nudity, theater, youth
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    “The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.”
    ― Lyman Bryson
    tags: age, experience, intelligence, life, youth
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    Billie Burke
    “Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
    ― Billie Burke
    tags: age, cheese
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience
    tags: age, life
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I made choices, and then, having made them, I had fewer choices.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
    tags: choices, decisions, gilead, margaret-atwood, mgg, the-testaments
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    Margaret Atwood
    “Nobody is any authority of the fucks other people give.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
    tags: gilead, margaret-atwood, mgg, the-testaments
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: be-yourself, be-yourself-inspirational, be-yourself-quote, be-yourself-quotes, heart, inner-voice, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-quotes, living, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, wisdom, wise
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    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    ― Colette
    tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    ― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America
    tags: education, experience, wisdom
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    Bruce Lee
    “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
    ― Bruce Lee
    tags: expectations, individuality, peer-pressure, wisdom
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    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    ― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
    tags: folly, preference, wisdom
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: adversity, difficulty, hope, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, perseverance, persistence, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, storms
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    Mandy Hale
    “You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leadership, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, passion, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, purpose
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
    tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
    11483 likes



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