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Florida Maxwell Scott Quotes

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“Evolution is necessarily slow since we resent it so.”
— Florida Maxwell Scott, Amor Fati: Learning To Love And Accept Everything That Happens
Tagged: Amor fati
“Always, through everything, I try to straighten my spine, or my soul. They both ought to be upright I feel, for pride, for style, for reality's sake, but both tend to bend under a weight that has been carried a long time. I try to lighten my burden by knowing it, I try to walk lightly, and sometimes, I do, for sometimes I feel both light and proud. At other times I am bent, bent.”
— Florida Maxwell Scott, The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging
Tagged: Obstacles
“Hardihood is a quality supposedly created by difficulty, and I have always felt it to be a stimulating virtue. I like people who have it, and that must mean I like people who have been disciplined by hardship, which is true. I find them realistic, not easily daunted, and they make a few childish claims. This also means that the hardness of life I deplore created the qualities I admire. Poverty used to see to create morality. If you were poor you had to be selfless, uncomplaining, independent, ingenious, and courageous. Now in an age of plenty when it is felt that we should have what we want–and when this becomes a practical possibility–what happens to hardihood? Is it a disappearing virtue? I should be sorry to see it go, and very surprised if it did.”
— Florida Maxwell Scott, The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging
Tagged: Prepare
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