Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
For is it not possible that middle age can be looked upon as a period of second flowering, second growth, even a kind of second adolescence? It is true that society in general does not help one accept this interpretation of the second half of life.