Younger Next Year Quotes

#1. Dr. Henry Lodge, coauthor of Younger Next Year, makes the point sharply. "It turns out," he says, "that 70% of American aging is not real aging. It's just decay. It's rot from the stuff that we do.

Ken Robinson

#2. Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

Adriana Trigiani

#3. As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Henry Reed

#4. Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.

Sarah Silverman

#6. Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#7. Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech,

Marissa Mayer

#8. There's so much energy exchange [in conduction], so you get back a lot, of course, but you also have to give a lot. It's kind of high-energy thing.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#9. Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who had no head, only the white bone of her spine protruding from her raggedly severed neck.

Cassandra Clare

#10. My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#12. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Ray Bradbury

#13. When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.

Socrates

#14. Depression could be considered the exact opposite of the strange obsession with being entirely oneself - of identifying no more - that tool hold of our societies of the early 1960s.

Alain Ehrenberg

#15. Constantly take inventory of what's important to you.

Dave Chappelle

#16. I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!

Rashida Jones

#17. Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case.

Edward St. Aubyn