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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more
It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.
The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with read more
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, read more
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.