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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D.fter them.
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "Ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
When you're you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. life which is empty of purpose until will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it.t that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in , I was born of the spirit in . That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.