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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
[Vieillir n’est qu’une mauvaise habitude; l’homme occupé n’a pas le temps de la prendre.]André Maurois (1885-1967) French author [b. Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog]
The Art of Living [Un Art de Vivre], ch. 8 “The Art of Growing Old” (1939) [tr. Whitall (1940)]More about this quote: wist.info/maurois-andre/66030/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andremaurois #aging #badhabit #busyness #gettingold #growingold #keepingbusy #living #oldage
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from C W Leadbeater
Sometimes people grieve when they find old age coming upon them, when they find their vehicles not so strong as they used to be. They desire the strength and the faculties that they once had. It is wise for them to repress that desire, to realize that their bodies have done good work, and if they can no longer do the same amount as of yore, they should do gently and peacefully what they can, but not worry themselves over the change. Presently they will have new bodies; and the way to ensure a good vehicle is to make such use as one can of the old one, but in any case to be serene and calm and unruffled. The only way to do that is to forget self, to let all selfish desires cease, and to turn the thought outward to the helping of others as far as one’s capabilities go.
C. W. Leadbeater (1846-1934) English clergyman, theosophist, author [Charles Webster Leadbeater]
The Masters and the Path, ch. 14 (1925)More about this quote: wist.info/leadbeater-cw/83663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leadbeater #cwleadbeater #theosophy #aging #appreciation #besteffort #capability #decline #desire #disability #gettingold #grief #growingold #helping #henoed #illness #oldage #serenity #weakness
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) French-American historian, educator, polymath
Quoted in Arthur Krystal, “Age of Reason,” The New Yorker (2007-10-15)More about this quote: wist.info/barzun-jacques/66891…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #barzun #jacquesbarzun #aging #lifestyle #oldage #gettingold #growingold
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Is there something you can do about it? You’re darned right there is! You can fight back. Mister Old Age is not going to get you, by golly! All you need is a little determination — a willingness to get out of that reclining lounge chair, climb into that sweatsuit, lace on those running shoes, stride out that front door, and hurl yourself in front of that municipal bus.
No, wait. Sorry. For a moment there I got carried away by the bleakness of it all. Forget what I said. Really. There is absolutely no need to become suicidally depressed about the fact that every organ in your body is headed straight down the toilet.Dave Barry (b. 1947) American humorist, author, columnist
Dave Barry Turns 40, ch. 2 “Your Disintegrating Body” (1990)More about this quote: wist.info/barry-dave/82870/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #davebarry #body #exercise #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #physicalfitness
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Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".
More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"
OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.
And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.
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Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".
More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"
OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.
And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.
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Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".
More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"
OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.
And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.
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Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".
More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"
OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.
And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.
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Annoying: you're 16 and your mom says "Stop slouching. You'll damage your back".
More annoying: you're 56 and your doctor says "You've damaged your back with that slouching. Didn't your mom tell you?"
OK, so he didn't actually mention my mother. He just thought it very loudly.
And yes, stop slouching. It really isn't good for you.
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From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.
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From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.
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From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.
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From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.
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I think I'm going to take tomorrow off and have a three day weekend. My feet hurt, my knee hurts, and its been a long week. Goal is $700 with a minimum of $500, and we're at $542 for this week, last week we made $809, so we can definitely afford it.
Oh and to make things interesting, this weekend my credit union will be down, some services will be available, but they're making major changes to the computer systems, frankly if'n I understand what they're doing it, they've been needed. It shouldn't cause me any real problems other than likely not having things credited or debited from my account until Tues, assuming it all goes well.
#••Life #Life #Growing-Old #Work #Rest -
A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)More about this quote: wist.info/aldrich-thomas-baile…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasbaileyaldrich #aging #gettingold #growingold #lifespan #reversetime #youth
