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“Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.”

Book:Displacement: A Travelogue

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“A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.”

Wisdom Age Youth Mental Health Aging Writer Agility Memory Loss Stroke Pulitzer Prize

Book:Less

Source: Less

“I lot of things happen to me. I think sometimes the key to happiness is framing those things in a different way”

Happiness

Book:Just for the Summer

Source: Just for the Summer

“At this point I realised what it meant to be a man in India. It meant knowing what one could do and knowing what one could only get done. It meant being able to hold onto two patterns simultaneously. One was methodical, hierarchical, regulated and the outcome depended on fate, chance, kings and desperate men. The other was intuitive, illicit and guaranteed. The trick was to know when to shift between the patterns, to peel the file off a table and give it to a peon, to speak easily of one's cousin the minister or archbishop. I did not think I would ever know what these shifts entailed, and that meant, in essence, that I was never going to grow up.”

Age Politics Corruption Bureaucracy Bribery Grow Up

Book:Em and the Big Hoom

Source: Em and the Big Hoom

“It was the happiest time of my life. I was useful, I was learning, I was away from my father. I look back at that time with extreme fondness. It seems rather far away now, but that is what age does. Time is such a villain.”

Life Age Time Aging Quotes Dobhin Michelle Franklin Quotes

Book:Tales from Frewyn

Source: Tales from Frewyn

“...Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)”

Age

Book:In the Night of Time

Source: In the Night of Time

“In youth, there can be a feeling that time moves too slowly. But, as we age, the acceptance that our time is limited prompts the wise to cherish each and every moment.”

Age Youth Aging Loving Life Growing Older Value Of Time Cherish Each Moment

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

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