Quote Worthy

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful. - Joseph Addison

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. - Joseph Addison 

Of middle age, the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. - Don Marquis

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. - Eric Hoffer

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. - Theodore H. White

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. - Ben Stein

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it. - Harry Browne

Spiritual Training

Just as in learning to swim or in learning a language, often toiling on with no apparent result, there comes a day when suddenly we realize we can do it, - how we know we know not; so it is in spiritual matters. - Forbes Robinson 

The emphasis in spiritual training is on learning how to listen deeply and not miss that small voice in the midst of the many louder voices and stimulations in human society. Anonymous

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. - Albert Schweitzer

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. - Leo Buscaglia

Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. - Dogen 

We're all at different levels of our own development and evolution. What works for one person, certainly doesn't have to work for everyone else. - Anonymous

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. - M. Scott Peck

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening? - Kahlil Gibran

It is not until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control. - Anonymous

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. - Barbara De Angelis

Food For Thought

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt 

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance and suspicion are the fruits of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. Our healing gift to the weak is the capacity for self-help. We must learn how to impart to them the technical, social and political skill which will enable them to get bread, human dignity, freedom and strength by their own efforts. - Unknown 

Advice - Quotes

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. - Ed Howe

Advice after mischief is like medicine after death. - Danish Proverb

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good; some of it is bad. - Proverb

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it. - William Henry McMasters

Advice is like a stranger – if welcome, he stays the night; if not welcome, he returns home that day. - African Proverb

Advice is like bogus money, everybody wants to pass it on ye; nobody wants to take it. - Charles Clark Munn 

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. - Josh Billings

Advice is like cooking – you should try it before you feed it to others. - Croft M. Pentz

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal. - E. C. McKenzie

Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like straw thrown on a fire. - Isaiah 47:14

Advice is not often asked of seeming idlers: it is most common to interrupt the busy by such requests; and naturally enough, since those who attend most carefully to their own concerns, are generally thought best qualified, by experience, to judge for others. - Unknown 

Advice is only rarely requested with the intention of being followed. Sometimes, it is requested in order to flatter the adviser. Sometimes, it is requested because it is hoped that the advice given will tell a great deal about the adviser. Sometimes, the request is an excuse for spending time with the adviser, because his or her room is nicer … Occasionally, the request for advice is an introductory sentence, a polite preface to a lengthy statement of the requester's opinion. Asking for advice can also be a way of apologizing for numerous occasions when advice or orders have not been followed in the past. - Norman Sartorius 

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. - Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. - Erica Jong

All the advice in the whole will never help you until you help yourself. - Fred Van Amburgh

Another problem with advice is that the advisor seldom understands the full implications of the problem. When people share their concerns with us, they often display only the ‘tip of the iceberg.’ The advisor is unaware of the complexities, feelings, and the many other factors that lie hidden beneath the surface. - Robert Bolton

Ask advice only of your equals. - Danish Proverb

Asking for advice is an act of humility … The act alone says, ‘I need you.’ The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship. - Dennis Bakke

Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two questions – namely, what is your motive for giving it, and what is it likely to be worth? If these questions were always asked, and honestly answered, there would be less advice given. - John William Mackail

Best advice in two lines… Silence is the best answer for all questions. Smiling is the best reaction in all situations. - Unknown

Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. - Dr. David Seabury

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. - Titus Maccius Plautus

Expert advice is a great comfort, even when it is wrong. - Unknown

Follow the advice of people and fail, and they have nothing for you but contempt. Pay no attention to them and succeed, and they will follow in your footsteps. - George H. Knox 

Give advice; if people don’t listen let adversity teach them. - Ethiopian Proverb 

Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others. - Anthony Shaftesbury

Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for ‘giving advice’ in order to get an audience. - William Henry McMasters

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. - Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Good advice is rarer than rubies. - Salman Rushdie 

Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare. - Al Batt

Good advice is everywhere, but only those people with an open heart will benefit from it. - Unknown

Good advice offering requires knowing a person very, very well. So well, in fact, that you may know more about them than they know about themselves in certain situations. Then, good advice is loving and given out of love. It is never to control or manipulate. Then, it is giving information; just giving, not enforcing, information. And lastly and most importantly, after advice is given, the outcome is let go of completely, trusting that the other person will take it, leave it, or ponder it. - Anne Wilson Schaef

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it. - Karl von Knebel

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you. - Jennifer Lopez

I’ll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody. - Robert Altma

If someone gives you advice, it is in his own interest. - Tunisian Proverb

If you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you do not need advice. - Unknown

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes. - Croft M. Pentz

In a crisis, give help first and then advice. - Aesop 

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend. - Solon

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice – a still weaker thing to take it. - Arthur Helps 

It is a disingenuous thing to ask for advice, when you mean assistance. - Arthur Helps

It is always easier to give advice than to follow it. That does not mean people should not give advice. Drawing a plan for making a plane is always easier than making a plane. But you still need the drawing first. - Unknown

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. - Aeschylus

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless. - Austin O’Malley

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. - Logan Pearsall Smith

It’s always good to be careful when you give advice, because someone might take it. - Croft M. Pentz

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. - Sophocles 

Man is never less sincere than when he asks, or offers, advice. When he asks it, he seems to defer to the wisdom of his friend, but really he seeks approval of his own opinion, and to make his friend responsible with him for his actions. When he offers advice, he seems to repay the confidence of his inquirer with disinterested zeal, while really seeking to bolster his own advantage or reputation. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one. - Ivern Ball

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. - Josh Billings

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. - Kahlil Gibran

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically. - Stephen Hawking

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. - Spanish Proverb

Never ask for advice and then shoot the person giving it. - Unknown

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sidney J. Harri

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. - Aesop

No one can give you better advice than yourself. - Cicero

No one wants advice – only corroboration. - John Steinbeck

Nothing is given so willingly as advice. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is less sincere than the manner of asking and giving advice. He who asks it seems to have a respectful deference for the opinion of his friend; though he only aims at making him approve his own, and be responsible for his conduct. And he who gives it, repays the confidence reposed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal; though he seldom means anything by the advice he gives but his own interest or reputation. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them. - Unknown

Seek advice but use your own common sense. - Yiddish Proverb

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice. - Italian Proverb

The brain may take advice, but not the heart. - Truman Capote

The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise. - Norman MacDonald 

The desire to give advice is itself a symptom of disapproval; and further, it is usually the result of a desire to express that disapproval. And we are most moved to give advice to those for whom our affection and regard may be taken for granted, but to whom we would rather express our disapproval. We cannot go to them and say that we disapprove of them. That would not be affectionate, and might lead to reprisals. But we can give them advice in which the disapproval is implied and which yet seems innocently helpful. - John William Mackail

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. - Oscar Wilde

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none. - Eden Phillpotts

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it’s hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn’t envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what’s best for you. - David Lieberman

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don’t want to hear. - Charles de Lint

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. - Hannah Whitall Smith

The wisest man is he who does not require advice. - Edward Counsel

There are as many forms of advice as there are colours of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice. - Al Franken

There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion. - Norman MacDonald 

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. - Joseph Addison

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. - John Churton Collins 

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own. - John Gray

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. - John Churton Collins

We advise others better than ourselves. - Norman MacDonald 

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. - Arthur Helps

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves. - William Hazlitt 

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. - Tom Stoppard

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We hate to have some people give us advice because we know how badly they need it themselves. - Unknown

We sometimes give ourselves admirable advice, but we are incapable of taking it. - Unknown

What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. - William Faulkner 

What’s wrong with advice? Advice is often a basic insult to the intelligence of the other person. It implies a lack of confidence in the capacity of the person with the problem to understand and cope with his or her own difficulties. As Norman Kagan puts it, “In essence, we implicitly say to someone, ‘You have been making a “big deal” out of a problem whose solution is immediately apparent to me – how stupid you are!’” - Robert Bolton

Whatever advice you give, be brief. - Horatius

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. - Josh Billings

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. - Seneca

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Joseph Louis LaGrange

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it. - Benjamin Franklin

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. - John Steinbeck

Dealing With Anger

No matter how sweet our temperament and nature is, we still get angry once in a while – at things, at people, at situations …etc. That is only natural because we are human beings after all. 

The following talks about dealing with angers. Maybe you will bear in mind the following points when you are feeling angry, or dealing with anger in the future.

1. Dealing with criticism from other people -

When someone says the truth, we can acknowledge our faults and mistakes, just as we acknowledge having a nose on our face. There is no need to get angry. On the other hand, if someone blames us for something we didn't do, it is as if he/she said that we have horns on our heads. There is no reason to be angry at something untrue.

2. Dealing with situations -

Ask ourselves, "Can I do something about it?"

If we can, then anger is out of place because we can improve the situation. If we can't change the situation, anger is useless because nothing can be done.

3. Dealing with disagreement -

Examine how we got involved in the situation - What actions did we do recently to prompt the disagreement? Examining this helps us to understand why the other person is upset.

4. Dealing with the enemy -

Remember the kindness of the enemy. Firstly, he/she points out our mistakes so that we can correct them and improve our character. Secondly, she gives us the opportunity to practise patience. Thus the enemy is kinder to us than our friends.

Recognise that the other person's unhappiness and confusion are making him harm us. Since we know what it is like to be unhappy, we can empathise with him. Thus he becomes the object of our compassion and not the object of our anger.

5. Dealing with our selfish attitude -

Sometimes we get angry when things suddenly crop up and spoil our plans or put us in discomfort. But this anger is actually due to our selfish attitude that all things must go our way. If we can recognise this and change our attitude or way of thinking, we will be able to take things into our stride and curb anger.

6. Dealing with people that irritates us -

Ask ourselves, "Is it the person's nature to act like this?" If it is, then there's no reason to be angry, for it will be like getting annoyed with fire for burning. If it isn't, again anger is unrealistic, for it will be like getting angry at the sky for having clouds in it.

7. Examine the disadvantages of anger and grudge-holding -

Once we know and recognise the disadvantages of these destructive emotions that will affect our health and our lives, we will have the strength and energy to battle and dissolve anger as nobody will want their lives to be unhappy.

- Source Unknown

Jokes

Are You Hiring?

            A woman walked up to the manager of a department store. “Are you hiring any help?” she asked.

            “No,” he said. “We already have all the staff we need.”

            “Then would you mind getting someone to wait on me?” she asked.

Tax

            They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash.

Temperature

            The doctor ask the nurse if she had taken the patient’s temperature. The nurse replied, “No, is it missing?”

Seasick

            On his first sea voyage, a seasick passenger was asked by the steward whether he wanted dinner.

            “Just throw it overboard,” groaned the man, “and save me the trouble.”

In Debt

            “You know, running into debt isn’t all that bad,” said one friend to another.

            “You are right,” his friend agreed. “It’s running into creditors that really hurts!”

Age - Qutoes

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent. - Lyman Abbott

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard 

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain

Age is only experience, and some of us are more experienced than others. - Mickey Rooney

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. - Muhammad Ali  

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. - Christian Nestell

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest in a man’s life; and, I maintain, that even where they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still. - Seneca

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy. - Stefan Zweig

As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open. - Clint Eastwood

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind. - Irvin D. Yalom

Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day. - Dylan Thomas

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. - Albert Einstein 

Don’t complain about growing old – many, many people do not have that privilege. - Earl Warren

Everyone is the age of their heart. - Guatemalan Proverb

Few know how to be old. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Growing old is no more than a bad habit a busy man has no time to form. - Andre Maurois

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to he who is of opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

I think aging has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again. - Woody Allen

I used to think I preferred getting old to the alternative, but now I'm not sure. Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Particularly when I remember that I'm one of the ancient dusty people, filed away like some worthless tchotchke. - Sara Gruen

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early. - Lyman Abbott

It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same. - Unknown

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree. - George Eliot

It must be confessed that life after forty is an anti-climax, gradual indeed, and progressive with some, but steep and rapid with others. It would be well if old age diminished our perceptibilities to pain, in the same proportion that it does our sensibilities to pleasure; and if life has been termed a feast, those favoured few are the most fortunate guests, who are not compelled to sit at the table, when they can no longer partake of the banquet. - Charles Caleb Colton

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. - Philip Roth 

Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. - Charles M. Schulz

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. - Ausonius

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff. - Erma Bombeck

My body is older now, and not as good as it used to be, but my spirit is young and free. Age is nothing but a number as long as I never let go of the child living inside of me. - Unknown

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. - Unknown

Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure. - Doris Lessing 

Of middle age, the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. - Don Marquis

Nothing is more incumbent on the old, than to know when they should get out of the way, and relinquish to younger successors the honours they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform. - Thomas Jefferson

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. - Karl Lagerfeld

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death. - Andre Maurois

Old age ain't no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - William Somerset Maugham

Old age is just one of the life stages that societies create, and the number and timing of these stages vary. - Toni M. Calasanti

Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you get. But your view becomes much more extensive. - Unknown

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. - Fred Astaire

Old age is the harbor of all ills. - Bion

Old age makes you a stranger in your own country. - Ken Alstad

Old age ought to be, and essentially is a manifestation of what is hidden in the depths of man's nature. It might be, it should be, not an exhibition of crackling impotence and gloomy decay, but the very crown and ripening of life – the symbol of maturity, not of dissolution. - E. H. Chapin

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. - Gerald Brenan

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. - Confucius

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. - James Joyce

One of the greatest advantages of our later years is that we no longer have to scream; we can talk. We do not have to run; we can walk. We have the time to examine the quality of life and to work for ourselves on its improvement. We can do more of what we like, rather than what we were told we would like. - Unknown

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young. - William Feather

One of the things you realize about getting older is that not everybody is going to get older with you. - Cormac McCarthy

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until sixty-five will not suddenly become filled on retirement. - Unknown

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun. - Thomas Arnold 

Sixty feels exactly like 50, with aching feet and more forgetfulness.... But your inside person doesn't age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you've ever been. - Anne Lamott

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. - Andre Maurois

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat. - Luc de Clapiers

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. - Madeleine L'Engle

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end of lives that are at all prolonged, even in old lovers who have lived for one another, in old friends bound by the closest ties of mutual sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make the necessary journey or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know that they will communicate no more in this world. - Marcel Proust

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

The old are apt to mistake age for experience, and to imagine they are privileged to give good advice, though they may have lived only to afford bad example. - Norman MacDonald

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age. - Austin O’Malley

The real affliction of old age is remorse. - Cesare Pavese

The secret of a good old age is simply an honourable pact with solitude. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The solitude in which we are left by the death of our friends is one of the great evils of protracted life. When I look back to the days of my youth, it is like looking over a field of battle. All, all dead! and ourselves left alone midst a new generation whom we know not, and who know not us. - Thomas Jefferson

The tragedy of old age ... is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter. - Sinclair Lewis

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride. - Joyce Kilmer

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning. - Simone de Beauvoir

There may be a retirement age at work, but there is no retirement age in life. - Unknown 

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything. - Fran Lebowitz

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion. - Albert Camus 

To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past. - Stefan Zweig

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. - Amos Bronson Alcott

We have confidence in an old man when holding a position, but lack confidence in him when he is applying for one. - Lewis F. Korns

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, and be alone on earth. - Lord Bryon

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories. - William Somerset Maugham

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again. - John le Carre

With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come. - William Shakespeare

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. - Dorothy Parker

You know you’re the perfect age when you’re old enough to know better, young enough not to care, and experienced enough to do it right. - Unknown

Quote Worthy

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. - Elizabeth Gaskell

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. - Robert Baden-Powell

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. - Gloria Swanson

There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without. - William M. Peck

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. - Orison Swett Marden

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. - Marcus Aurelius 

The pleasure of risk is in the control needed to ride it with assurance so that what appears dangerous to the outsider is, to the participant, simply a matter of intelligence, skill, intuition, coordination – in a word, experience. - A. Alvarez

In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression. - Marvin J. Ashton 

Bhagavad Gita

According to Wikipedia,

The Bhagavad Gītā (Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˈbʱəɡəʋəd̪ ɡiːˈtɑː], Song of God), also more simply known as Gita, is a Hindu scripture, though its philosophies and insights are intended to reach beyond the scope of religion and to humanity as a whole. It is at times referred to as the "manual for mankind" and has been highly praised by not only prominent Indians such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi but also Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung and Herman Hesse. It is considered among the most important texts in the history of literature and philosophy. The Bhagavad Gita comprises exactly 700 verses, and is a part of the Mahabharata. The teacher of the Bhagavad Gita is Lord Krishna, who is revered by Hindus as a manifestation of God (Parabrahman) itself and is referred to within as Bhagavan, the Divine One. 

“Yoga of Devotion” from the Bhagavad Gita

A man should not hate any living creature. Let him be friendly and compassionate to all. He must free himself from delusion of ‘I” and “mine”. He must accept pleasure and pain with equal tranquillity. He must be forgiving, even contented, self controlled….

He neither molests his fellow men, nor allows himself to become disturbed by the world. He is no longer swayed by joy and passion, anxiety and fear.

He does not desire or rejoice in what is pleasant. He does not dread what is unpleasant or grieve over it. He remains unmoved by good or evil fortune.

His attitude is the same toward friend or foe. He is indifferent to honour and insult, heat and cold, pleasure and pain. He is free from attachment. He values praise and blame equally. He can control his speech. He is content with whatever he gets. His home is everywhere and nowhere.

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Some realize the Self within them through the practice of meditation, some by the path of wisdom, and others by selfless service. Others may not know these paths; but hearing and following the instructions of an illumined teacher, they too go beyond death. - Bhagavad-Gita 

The lord of unlimited power dwells in the heart of all beings, and by his magic power of illusion, causes them to move about like wooden dolls fixed on a machine. - Bhagavad Gita

Just as a reservoir is of little use when the whole countryside is flooded, scriptures are of little use to the illumined man or woman who sees the Lord everywhere. - Bhagavad-Gita

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. - Bhagavad Gita

For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration. - Bhagavad-Gita

Food For Thought

The joy of feeling fit physically is reflected in a clearer and more useful mind. You may read and study forever, but you come to no more important truthful conclusions than these two: 1. Take care of your body (eat and exercise properly), and your mind will improve. 2. Work hard, and be polite and fair, and your condition in the world will improve. No pills, tablets, lotions, philosophies, will do as much for you as this simple formula. Every intelligent man of experience since time began has taught this formula as a natural fact. - Ed Howe 

As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has caught the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season. Must a man then be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it? Yes. What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet should demand a recompense for walking? - Marcus Aurelius