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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  7. 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 Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  8. 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 Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  9. 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 Windows

    More about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility

  10. A quotation from Barzun

    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

  11. A quotation from Barzun

    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

  12. A quotation from Barzun

    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

  13. A quotation from Barzun

    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

  14. A quotation from Dave Barry

       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

  15. A quotation from Dave Barry

       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

  16. A quotation from Dave Barry

       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

  17. A quotation from Dave Barry

       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

  18. 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.

    #medicine #growingold

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

    #medicine #growingold

  21. 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.

    #medicine #growingold

  22. 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.

    #medicine #growingold

  23. #aging #elderly #growingold

    From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.

  24. #aging #elderly #growingold

    From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.

  25. #aging #elderly #growingold

    From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.

  26. #aging #elderly #growingold

    From my personal experience, do not grow old in a rural or suburban area. Just don't.

  27. 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
  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. A quotation from Horace

    Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
    At last they steal us from our selves away;
    In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
    In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
    This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
    What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
     
    [Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
    eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
    tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years

  33. A quotation from Horace

    Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
    At last they steal us from our selves away;
    In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
    In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
    This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
    What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
     
    [Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
    eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
    tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years

  34. A quotation from Horace

    Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
    At last they steal us from our selves away;
    In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
    In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
    This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
    What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
     
    [Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
    eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
    tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years

  35. A quotation from Horace

    Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
    At last they steal us from our selves away;
    In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
    In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
    This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
    What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?
     
    [Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
    eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
    tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14802/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #erosion #failing #gettingold #growingold #health #oldage #steal #take #time #years