It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. - Simone de Beauvoir

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In any new situation, you will be viewed in one of three ways. As a minus one: actively harmful, someone who creates problems. As a zero: your impact is neutral and doesn’t tip the balance one way or the other. Or as a plus one: someone who actively adds value. — Chris Hadfield, astronaut

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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something -Nolan Ryan

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. — Steve Maraboli

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. — Viktor E. Frankl

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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

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In any problem situation,there is always a solution. ― Lilia U. Chmelarz

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She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asiding me for money, which is really hard for me to find. -- Kanye West

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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. ― Rachel Carson

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One is not born a woman, but becomes one. - Simone de Beauvoir

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