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“Hypoxia, enlightenment and the pursuit of retirement age.”

Book:Magee’s Disease

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“Sooner or later the time comes for almost everybody when, although he has sworn to himself he will never utter such sentiments, he declares that the country is going to the dogs, that life has become louder, public manners cruder, and art totally incomprehensible. When, he asks himself, will it all end?”

Age

Book:Resident Alien: The New York Diaries

Source: Resident Alien: The New York Diaries

“We all have the opportunity to radically reinvent and reimagine the process of aging for ourselves. And I don’t mean merely doing more or doing differently. I don’t use “reinvention” in the way that many experts do—from the outside in. That’s the topic of most books about aging. Rather, my emphasis is on the internal, less familiar terrain of soul—those subtle yearnings that appear in images and fantasies, the ways we respond or fear to respond to those messengers, and the symbolic meanings we glean from them. As we learn the psychological and spiritual practices in this book, we discover how to orient to our inner worlds, deepen our self-knowledge, and reimagine age for ourselves, eventually shifting from denial to awareness, from self-rejection to self-acceptance, from obligation to flow, from holding on to letting go, from distraction to presence. Even from role to soul. The result: a newfound freedom from the constraints of past roles and identities, an emerging sense of becoming who you were always meant to be, and a profound gratitude for the way that your life unfolded.”

Age Spirituality Psychology

Book:The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

Source: The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

“When you are immature, you pride yourself on petty things such as being older than someone or some people.”

Wisdom Age Aging Stupidity Maturity Mature Old Immature Immaturity Older

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Quale sarebbe per me il modo migliore di morire?...Sì, insomma, voglio dire il modo...più degno possibile? Su, me lo dica!" "Passi accanto a noi perdonandoci la nostra felicità!" proferì il principe a voce bassa.”

Happiness Death Empathy Idiot Dostoevskij

Book:The Idiot

Source: The Idiot

“No, my friend, you are not ‘too old’. You’ve only grown into a hand-me-down lie. You are younger than your tomorrows, wiser than your yesterdays, confident in your now, centuries ahead of seconds, stronger for all you’ve conquered, and deserving of the levels you have reached. It’s about time to admit that you are timeless.”

Wisdom Age Youth Experience Old Age Timeless Ageing Broms The Poet Age Quotes

Book:Feast

Source: Feast

“I made many economies in my youth and they were fairly painless because the young do not particularly care for luxury. They have other interests than spending and can make love satisfactorily on a Coca-Cola, a drink which is nauseating in age. They have little idea of real pleasure: even their love-making is apt to be hurried and incomplete. Luckily in middle age pleasure begins, pleasure in love, in wine, in food. Only the taste for poetry flags a little, but I would have always gladly lost my taste for the sonnets of Wordsworth [...] if I could have bettered my palate for wine. Love-making too provides as a rule more prolonged and varied pleasure after forty-five. Aretino is not a writer for the young.”

Age Aging Youthfulness

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em.”

Wisdom Age

Book:The Orchard Keeper

Source: The Orchard Keeper

“A man dies at twenty and it is a great shame. He dies at thirty or forty and he has been taken from us too soon. But if one reaches the age of eighty-three, all the shock eventually begins to flow the other way, even in a murder case. The chief question becomes: How on earth did he survive so long?”

Age Death

Book:The Great Mistake

Source: The Great Mistake

“Old is subjective. Maybe your lives are so wild or unearthly that age is an unknown transcendence.”

Love Age Transcendence Old

Author:Amy Wolkenhauer

“Everything will always be okay if we get the opportunity to grow old enough”

Age

Author:Jan Jansen Easy Branches

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