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Old age Quote by Robin Hobb

“It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.” quote by Robin Hobb — Download Open image

““It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.””

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“I tried to leave you alone, Fitz. To find what peace you could, even if it excluded me from your life.” Ten years ago, I could not have understood the pain in his voice. I would only have seen him as interfering and calculating. Only now, with a son of my own intent on ignoring every bit of advice I’d…

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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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“So Mack got kind of a late start in the startup world—he founded TakeOff at the ripe old age of twenty-five”

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“Fear of seeing a police car pull into the drive. Fear of falling asleep at night. Fear of not falling asleep. Fear of the past rising up. Fear of the present taking flight. Fear of the telephone that rings in the dead of night. Fear of electrical storms. Fear of the cleaning woman who has a spot on her cheek!…

“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to…

“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.…

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

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“Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.”

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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more…

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“ Wisdom comes through suffering or old age. ”

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