55 Quotes by Florida Scott-Maxwell

You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality. When at last age has assembled you together, will it not be easy to let it all go, lived, balanced, over?

I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one's natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure. This is accompanied by the habit of regarding bad as abnormal and a personal outrage.

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.