To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away read more
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I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
