Quotes
Growing
Old
“The
desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is
wise.”
―
Maya Angelou
“We
shall not cease from exploration
And
the end of all our exploring
Will
be to arrive where we started
And
know the place for the first time.”
― T.
S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Pain
is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the
heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a
sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of
pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels
like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind
against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air!
We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest
thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Anybody
can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty
girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old
woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a
master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, portray her
exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to
be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an
armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old
and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you
feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew
older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done
to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were
never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
―
Robert Heinlein
“Wisdom
cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds
like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not
wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot
communicate and teach it.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Never,
never, never give in!”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“The
older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings
wisdom.”
―
H.L. Mencken
“In
youth, it was a way I had,
To
do my best to please.
And
change, with every passing lad
To
suit his theories.
But
now I know the things I know
And
do the things I do,
And
if you do not like me so,
To
hell, my love, with you.”
―
Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“We
live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
―
Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man
“Perhaps
the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the
misery of being it.”
―
Margaret Drabble
“Wonder
is the beginning of wisdom.”
―
Socrates
“The
soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Nowadays
most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too
late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All
knowledge hurts.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“Death
is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference
for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
―
Helen Keller
“Mockingbirds
don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s
gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts
out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
―
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“That's
what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people
love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending -
performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image,
an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow
attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they
really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like
you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
―
Jim Morrison
“There
comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself
to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable;
don't help them by doing the job yourself.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton
“Half
of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
“I
think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get
used to it.”
―
Charles Schultz
“You
can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of
your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be
found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.”
―
Sharon Salzberg
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