Dan Buettner Quote

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these...

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention yo...