“No matter how good the walls and the materials are; if the foundations are not strong, the building will not stand. By… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Old age can be a deceiver. My knees ache when I walk, but if I sit still, I do not feel so… — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
“Henri said our names were fitting because we were destined to be together in our old age, like our great-great-aunts. Two gray… — Jessica Taylor Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
“Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“If people are honest with themselves when they choose a tattoo, the art will represent them better than anything that will ever… — Troy Holloway Copy Share Image
“That day, instead, I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighbourhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this… — Burkhard Bilger Copy Share Image
“La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls'… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age. Tryin to set things right. I… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
“Maybe you'll come to know that every man in every generation is refired. Does a craftsman, even in his old age, lose… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There was a pause. Master and valet both perused the breakfast table, then each other. Finally the table again. Eventually, Grieves realized… — Jayne Fresina Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able… — Luis Buñuel Copy Share Image
“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
“Look at this fog. The damp gets right into your bones. It's doing my chest no good at all. I'll need a… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
“I went up to his gravestone and repeated what the others had done: I placed a pebble on his tomb and silently… — Emilie Schindler Copy Share Image
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
“The hearth is desolate. The children, the unconscious children, who once sang and danced in her presence, are gone. She gropes her… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Well, there was a Chinese farmer whose stallion ran away one day across the border to where a group of nomads lived.… — Steven James Copy Share Image
“It's the time ahead that's the worry. Not only the frequent occurrence of breakfast, the days chasing each other like Keystone Cops… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day! KING.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It’s not uncommon for distinguished French actresses to make their first films while still in their teens. Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Carré, Charlotte… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to… — Jack London Copy Share Image
