Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

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As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

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