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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Old.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Old is the new new.
- Anonymous
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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