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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #gettingold #goodlife #growingold #livingwell #oldage #perspective #pleasure
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright [William Somerset Maugham]
The Summing Up, ch. 73 (1938)More about this quote: wist.info/maugham-william-some…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #maugham #somersetmaugham #wsomersetmaugham #williamsomersetmaugham #aging #completeness #goodlife #growingold #oldage #perspective #pleasure #gettingold #livingwell -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life. Professional moralists have made too much of self-denial, and in so doing have put the emphasis in the wrong place. Conscious self-denial leaves a man self-absorbed and vividly aware of what he has sacrificed; in consequence it fails often of its immediate object and almost always of its ultimate purpose. What is needed is not self-denial, but that kind of direction of interest outward which will lead spontaneously and naturally to the same acts that a person absorbed in the pursuit of his own virtue could only perform by means of conscious self-denial.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 17 “The Happy Man” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/818…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #asceticism #temperance #celibacy #abstinence #diet #focus #goodlife #happiness #interest #selfdenial #selfrestriction
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Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
[L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #fulfillment #fulllife #goodlife #life #lifespan #lifetime #living #mortality
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (3/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (3/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (3/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (3/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (3/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (2/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (2/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (2/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (2/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (2/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (1/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (1/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (1/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (1/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats
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"Where are my blankets?" - Shylo
"I'm washing them for you." - Me
"I'll make do, but hurry up." - Shylo
Her life seems pretty good. (1/3)#cat #cats #Caturday #Saturday #Sunday #Shylo #orangecat #gingercat #catbed #shoebox #towel #blanket #spoiled #goodlife #catsofmastodon #mastodoncats