Quote by Matthew Frederick

“Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“In western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation…

— Abhijit Naskar

“On differing perspectives: "At birth, we're yanked from a warm, safe place and thrust into a world we have no way of comprehending. Childhood…

— Rick Reynolds

“All three are hip-deep in midlife, when the eyes go and the waistline spreads and the city on the hill that shone so brightly…

— Mary McNamara

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

— Clint Eastwood

“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the “fresh life within” that age reveals…

— Joan D. Chittister

“So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is…

— Robert Penn Warren

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the…

— George Santayana

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field…

— Robert Penn Warren

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

— Alfred de Vigny

The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze…

— Paul Evdokimov

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

— Ameen Rihani