When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star – it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. 635
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don’t postpone your dreams. 1.89K
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was! 647
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. 607
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. 634
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. 1.32K
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. 601
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. 2.42K
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. 580
I began to speak well at a very advanced age – 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid. 2.53K
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. 645
My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that. 634
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. 563
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. 601
In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked. 569
