{"author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene  but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["self","confidence"],"id":1087,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["creation","life-lessons"],"id":9180,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"No matter how old a mother is  she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["mothers","fathers"],"id":22913,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"It is as though God said, 'You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["creation","good-and-bad-times","orderliness-of-life"],"id":24137,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["life-and-living"],"id":45902,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"I say to life, 'You are very hard', and I also say: 'We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier...'. Life has to be hard to have any affect on us; even now we hardly notice it. Beyond that can one go? I must. I add, 'We are also blind to the miracles of good that come to us. We hardly heed them, we even protest against them'. Then I am left where I was, appalled by the hardness of life, knowing we are forced to be unwilling heroes. Suddenly I wonder--is all hardness justified because we are so slow in realizing that life was meant to be heroic? Greatness is required of us. That is life's aim and justification, and we poor fools have for centuries been trying to make it convenient, manageable, pliant to our will. It is also peaceful and tender and funny and dull. Yes, all that.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["difficulties-of-life","life-and-living"],"id":58975,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["time","thought","me "],"id":81621,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["adversity","inspirational"],"id":147748,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience  almost beyond our capacity at times  but something to be carried high.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["self","confidence"],"id":200568,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble  but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["self","acceptance"],"id":227859,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}