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“Gratitude shifts your focus from what you lack to the abundance that has always been within you.”

Book:Awareness: Reclaim Your Eternal Essence, Your True Essence

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“It is, after all, almost a miracle they are here. Not because they've survived the booze, the hashish, the migraines. Not that at all. It's that they've survived everything in life, humiliations and disappointments and heartaches and missed opportunities, bad dads and bad jobs and bad sex and bad drugs, all the trips and mistakes and face-plants of life, to have made it to fifty and to have made it here: to this frosted-cake landscape, these mountains of gold, the little table they can now see sitting on the dune, set with olives and pita and glasses and wine chilling on ice, with the sun waiting more impatiently than any camel for their arrival. So, yes. As with almost any sunset, but with this one in particular: shut the fuck up.”

Life Humor Age Travel Sunset Less Andrew Sean Greer

Book:Less

Source: Less

“And that unconscious ease that comes of being so young — still oblivious to the blows that will destroy parts of her. Past the age of forty, everyone is like a bombed-out city.”

Age 40

Book:Vernon Subutex 1

Source: Vernon Subutex 1

“You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?”

Age Freedom Slavery

Book:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“No matter if you're 14 or 90 years old, you'll never be this young again.”

Age Life Quotes Youth Gratitude Mindfulness

Book:Life Hacks For Mindful Living

Source: Life Hacks For Mindful Living

“It’s not that the old are wise But that we thirst for the wisdom we had at twenty when we understood everything when our brains bubbled with tingling insights percolating up from our brilliant genitals when our music rang like a global siege shooting down all the lies in the world oh then we knew the truth then we sparkled like mica in granite and now we stand on the shore of an ocean that rises and rises but is too salt to drink”

Wisdom Age Poetry Youth Maturity Poems

Author:Alicia Ostriker

“Some people age. Some people just get older. The wise know the difference.”

Age Wise Youth

Author:Steve Maraboli

“She must have been at least fifty. The age he now is himself, Richard notes dejectedly. That's one thing Selena has escaped. He thinks of it as an escape.”

Age

Book:Wilderness Tips

Source: Wilderness Tips

“Getting older seems to but does not make us even more mortal.”

Age Young Youth Old Age Immortality Immortal Mortality Old Mortal Elder

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Hypocrisy is something I have learned saturates every level of our society. I see it more with my old age than I did then. At some stage I started questioning everything that I was being taught and turned against various aspects of my upbringing. Maybe I had my reasons and maybe I needed new ways to cope.”

Age Time Old Age Hypocrisy Questions Upbringing Aspects

Book:Red Velvet Rose

Source: Red Velvet Rose

“I've always had this theory, that we're all born with a certain optimum age, the age we're really meant to be, and once we reach it we stick there, in our minds, where it counts. Personally I've always been twenty-five. I was good at being twenty-five.”

Age Psychology

Book:The Proof House

Source: The Proof House

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