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Top 25 Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes (2025 Update)

Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “To know another, and to be known by another – that is everything.”

1. “To know another, and to be known by another – that is everything.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “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?”

2. “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?”

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.”

3. “Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and – if it does not create it – maintains decency.”

4. “Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and – if it does not create it – maintains decency.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Life does not acommodate 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.”

5. “Life does not acommodate 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.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “I grow more intense as I age.”

6. “I grow more intense as I age.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another – that is everything.”

7. “One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another – that is everything.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.”

8. “Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

9. “No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Another secret we carry is that though drab outside – wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification – inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.”

11. “Another secret we carry is that though drab outside – wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification – inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say “Of what?” I can only answer “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.””

12. “I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say “Of what?” I can only answer “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.””

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.”

13. “We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn’t be discovery.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth – a morsel – and you.”

14. “I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth – a morsel – and you.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.”

15. “It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.”

16. “I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”

17. “Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.”

18. “Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.”

19. “Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.”

20. “Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”

22. “The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.”

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

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “It is as though God said, “You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.”

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

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.”

27. “Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.”

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Florida Scott-Maxwell Quote: “Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”

28. “Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”

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