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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 Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
The Salmon of Doubt, Part 2 “The Universe” (2002) [ed. Peter Guzzardi]More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #age #aging #gettingold, growingold #henoed #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #luddite
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/meir-golda/77084/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #goldameir #acceptance #calm #gettingold #aging #growingold #henoed #inevitability #oldage
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-01), “Over the Teacups,” No. 2, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 65Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aging #delusion #dementia #henoed #oldage #reality #unreality
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It feels great to be 95. I mean, for those parts of me that still have feeling.
Bob Hope (1903-2003) American comedian, actor, humanitarian (b. Leslie Townes Hope)
“95 Years of Hope,” press kit, joke sheet (1998)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hope-bob/76820/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #aging #decrepitude #feeling #gettingold #growingold #henoed
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) Scottish writer, poet, essayist
Memento Mori, ch. 4 [Miss Jean Taylor] (1959)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/spark-muriel/76498/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #death #dying #friends #henoed ?#mortality #oldage #passingaway #seventy
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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let mine not be the saddest fate of all,
To live beyond my greater self; to see
My faculties decaying, as the tree
Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall.
Let me hear rather the imperious call,
Which all men dread, in my glad morning time,
And follow death ere I have reached my prime,
Or drunk the strengthening cordial of life’s gall.
The lightning’s stroke or the fierce tempest blast
Which fells the green tree to the earth to-day
Is kinder than the calm that lets it last,
Unhappy witness of its own decay.
May no man ever look on me and say,
“She lives, but all her usefulness is past.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1882), “Uselessness,” Maurine and Other Poems (1882 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aging #decline #gettingold #growingold #henoed #living #oldage #senescence #usefulness #uselessness #utility
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both feeling and looking queer.
In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Poem (1858-09), “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 4Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #age #agelessness #aging #gettingold #growingold #henoed #oldage #tree #truth #youth
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Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.
Philip Roth (1933-2008) American novelist and short-story writer
Everyman (2006)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roth-philip/76261/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiproth #aging #gettingold #growingold #henoed #oldage
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #age #aging #excitement #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #gettingold #growingold #henoed
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/
#quote #quotes #quotation #age #aging #excitement #innovation #naturalorder #normalcy #perspective #progress #technology #gettingold #growingold #henoed
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A quotation from Euripides:
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Alas, how right the ancient saying is:
We, who are old, are nothing else but noise
And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go,
And have no wits, although we think us wise.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/68620/#quote #quotation #quotes #dementia #elderly #henoed #mind #oldage #shadows #wits
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A quotation from Tennyson, Alfred, Lord:
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Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/tennyson-alfred-lord/5283/#quote #quotes #quotation #determination #heart #henoed #oldage #weakness #willpower
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A quotation from Billings, Josh:
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One ov the most diffikult, and at the sametime one ov the most necessary, things for us old phellows to know, is that we aint ov so mutch ackount now az we waz.
[One of the most difficult, and at the same time one of the most necessary, things for us old fellows to know, is that we aren’t of so much account now as we were.]
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/billings-josh/65685/#quote #quotes #quotation #aging #decline #henoed #maturity #oldage #prestige
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A quotation from Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell:
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/1925/#quote #quotes #quotation #aging #henoed #oldage #perspective #realization
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A quotation from Martial:
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Life is not living, but living in health.
[Vita non est vivere, sed valere vita est.]
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https://wist.info/martial/38529/#quote #quotes #quotation #age #aging #endurance #happiness #health #henoed #illness #life #living #suffering #value