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"The director of one of the nursing homes I have studied said, 'We do not become children as we age. But because dependency can look childlike, we too often treat the elderly as though this were the case."
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"Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good."
"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
"When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life."
"One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over."
"You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering."
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"It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy."
"Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real."
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it."
"As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts."
"Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical."
"A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, 'There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different.' Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect."
"You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments. When we don't have the capacity for solitude, we turn to other people in order to feel less anxious or in order to feel alive. When this happens, we're not able to appreciate who they are. It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us feel less alone. But we're at risk, because actually it's the opposite that's true."
"Sometimes a citizenry should not simply 'be good'. You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent."
"Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available."
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