Quote for Today: Franklin Lushington
There is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should …
Quote for Today: Jetta Carleton
Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again – the smile and the day, the whole sunny, …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone. ―Albert …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Franzen
And so–for the first time, it seemed–Pip had looked at her mother’s hands. The skin on the back of them wasn’t pink and opaque like her own skin. It was …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
I am convinced that most people do not grow up… We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow …
Quote for Today: Donald Hall
Over the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we know what will happen, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy. It is alien, …
Quote for Today: Christopher Isherwood
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face – the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man – all present …
Still Growing: “Get Old” Hy Snell, 94
Meet Hy Snell, who has been painting for seven decades. At 94 he possesses only 5% of his eyesight, but he keeps working, still trying to paint the best work …
Quote for Today: Anne Rice
“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.” “And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I …