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“Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.”

God Life Is Joy Our Lives Youth Bears Summer Wave Riches Supreme Streams Decay Flash Lightning Life Is Like Me Alone Unstable Stormy Cloudy Cloudy Day

Author:Bhartrhari

“The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. In youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. One takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... But in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.”

“All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable privileges. Only imagine a human being condemned to perpetual youth while all around him decay and die. O, how sincerely would he call upon death for deliverance!”

Humans Dies Fall Human Beings Imagine Youth Misery Privilege Painful Enjoyment Perpetual Solitary Decay Sincerely Deliverance Insufferable

Author:James Sharp

“Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age.”

Age Growth Novel Youth Aging Decay Alas

Author:Mason Cooley

“As a youth, I sought out decadence; as an elder, I try to avoid decay.”

Trying Age Youth Old Age Decay Elders Decadence

Author:Mason Cooley

“Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.”

Source: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.”

People Children Self Age Today Young Parent Youth Decay Self Control Rude Impatient Modernity Youngsters Rudeness Disrespectful Taverns Spoiled Children

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death.”

Moments Dies Causes Born Youth Birth Sickness Midst Decay Inherent

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.”

Ifs World Should Enough Moving Order Force Grows Accepting Youth Produce Demand Moved Mere Radical Decay Clash Whim Sour Stale Stagnant Fervor

Author:William Allen White

“A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.”

Years May Dream Age Song Waiting Hours Failing Youth Tears Eternal Messages Fruit Track Gates Shore Fades Decay Again And Again Worn Ache Voyages Unborn Worn Out

Author:Rabindranath Tagore