It is a pity the spirit does not grow old too.
There Will Be Winter, There Will Be Cold, There Will Be Snowstorms, But Then There Will Be Spring.. Again..”
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows, We drained a hundred jugs of wine.
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
“Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness lives in the soul.
The old man was once young but the young is not sure that will be old.
When one is young, is too soon. When one is old, is too late.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Old habits can be a burden, when we have become so alike.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
The glory of mighty men is given one quarter by their boldness, two quarters by luck and a quarter by their crimes.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.
The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Two equally steep and bold paths may lead to the same peak. To act as if death did not exist, or to act thinking every minute of death, is perhaps the same thing.
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
When I sing, I become 14 years old.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
There is no average between Old and New. The world is either old or new.
Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.
“A monkey is always a monkey," says the proverb, "even if he has birth-tokens of gold." Although you have a book in your hand and read all the time, you do not understand a single thing that you read, but you are like the donkey that listens to the lyre and wags his ears.
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.
A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
I have met many young men, who have the skeletons of the old covered by the garb of youth. On the other hand, I have met many elderly people who are weighed down by age but beneath the cloud there lies the glorious sun of youth.
Let's forget today who is friend or foe, and hold each other in caring embrace.
I know you'll break off I can't hold your hair But leave your smell with me
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
The worth of music, it includes all things Of untold value, like a priceless gem
I don't want to die an old lady.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them.”
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today... what they did was sounder.
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
“I now knew that all of us were prostitutes who sold themselves at varying prices, and that an expensive prostitute was better than a cheap one.”
Their heart grew cold / they let their wings down
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
I grow old learning something new every day.
A man growing old becomes a child again.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
I sing, bird alone. Only me, I sing alone. Oh how old is my song!
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Love is the only gold.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.