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“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”
“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Heres a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Kell...”
“When You Are Old"WHEN you are old and grey 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...”
“It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.”
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
“It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the sp...”
“If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up”
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are...”
“We are one at the root - we just part at the branch”
“Dad, will they ever come back?""No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise...”
“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or mar...”
“Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.”
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
“There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.”
“LIFE - Death's Very Emissary”
“Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.”
