Aging Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Experience Learning Maturity Wisdom
“The ocean crashes to the shore, And comes to us with a mighty roar. And stones can threaten our path, To trip our progress… — Jer Jorgenson Copy Share Image
“Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we ever be… — Rebecca Boucher Copy Share Image
“They came there regularly every evening drawn by some need. It was as if the water floated off and set sailing thoughts which had… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
“Lines written for a thirtieth wedding anniversary Somewhere up in the eaves it began: high in the roof – in a sort of vault… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“glass that the sea tossed up after years of being tumbled and turned by the waves and the salt water, finally landing on the… — Barbara Freethy Copy Share Image
“The tide goes out imperceptibly. The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“As time passes, I am glad to have more days of the tide coming in and bringing joy and hope and laughter into my… — Pam K. McCarty Copy Share Image
“Sediments of stones scatter as the ego hath crushed, weather of life changes every form , be it rock or a human!” — Soumya V Copy Share Image
“Rockface sheer and imposing, emerges from the sea, reminding us nature makes no allowances.” — Marcia Meier Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image