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Category: Maeve Binchy

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Black And White, Great

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar’s love of learning for its own sake.

Love, Understanding, Lucky

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient – and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

Thought, People, Remember

I’ve had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

Life, Success, Good

I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

Education, Happy, Good

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint – a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

Sister, Faith, Her

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I’m totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

Happiness, Happy, Past

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life.” – Lena Gray

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You’re a grown-up, it’s no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

emotional-maturity, grown-up, maturity, rescue

Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn’t have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was desperately unhappy at school and who had lost four stone in weight, she wouldn’t hang around –she’d try to cope with it. If she had a father who couldn’t cope she’d have him to live with her. Only now was she beginning to realize that it was not to be so simple. People had minds of their own. And her mother’s mind was like a hermetically sealed box in a vault of a bank.

addiction, rescue