And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Topic: Age, Life
- Location: Caribbean Sea
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.
The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
