Aging Quotes - Page 21

• If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Ifs

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• It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

  George Eliot

  Teaching, Self, Taught

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 3, ch. 29

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• It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Men, Forever

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• It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Book

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• Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Crazy, May

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• Life, the permission to know death.

  Djuna Barnes

  Permission, Knows

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thinking, Fool, World

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• Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

  John Dewey

  Goal, Perfection, Finals

  John Dewey (2015). “Reconstruction in Philosophy: Top American Authors”, p.82, 谷月社

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• Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.

  Jean Paul

  Beautiful, Faces, Cheerfulness

  Jean Paul (1863). “Titan: A Romance. From the German of Jean Paul Richter”, p.375

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• Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Sea, Age, Estuaries

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• One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

  George Washington Carver

  Motivational, Assessment, Long

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• Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Success, Echoes, Soul

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 4, song (added 1850)

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• Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.

  Maria Montessori

  Spiritual, Teaching, Goal

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Stress, Health, Years

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• Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

  Susan Sontag

  Learning, Mean, One Day

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• Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teaching, Ties, Intellectual

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.124

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• So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Selfish, Learning, Watches

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• Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Literature, Life Is

  "How to Do It; Or, The Lively Art of Entertaining".

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• Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Learning, Training

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

  George Santayana

  Impossible, Assumption, Life Is

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 10 (1905)

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• The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Skirts, Hiding

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.94, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Success, Keys, Rhythm Of Life

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• The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Giving Up, Regret

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• The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

  Robert Bly

  Song, Children, Ideas

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