“The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.”— Ellen Goodman Related Quotes “I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.”– Nina Totenberg “In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”– George Eliot “When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”— Flannery O’Connor