“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.” ChildrenEndsHomeBodyAgePainSufferingHouseLeftMemoriesRoomsOld AgeYour ChildrenHandfulFadingPain And Suffering Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.” ThinkingGivingAgeLeftCausesAdviceFolksPrivilegeOld AgePlenty Book:Selected from the Women of Brewster Place Source: Selected from the Women of Brewster Place
“We have got to defeat this attack on the freedom of the mind...But it takes courage for a young man with a family to stand up to it; all the more obligation on those of us who have nothing left to lose. At any age it is better to be a dead lion than a living dog - though better still, of course, to be a living and victorious lion - but it is easier to run the risk of being killed (or fired) in action if before long you are going to be dead anyway. This freedom seems to me the chief consolation of old age.” IfsMenMindLongStillsSeemsRunningAgeActionYoungCoursesLeftLosesRiskDogEasierDefeatObligationOld AgeChiefsYoung ManLionsConsolation Author:Elmer Davis
“Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.” LightAgeFaithLeftGrowsGoes OnSorrowPureSolitudeShiningOld AgeRevelations Author:Sophie Swetchine