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I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Trust in the Light.
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
Open yourself to the Light!
Hold back nothing,
Trust in the Light.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Know that anger is always fear and frustration.
What if we could lean back into the arms of Spirit
and trust the future?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whenever the World Frowns, I Smile Back.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
We must build dikes of courage
to hold back the flood of fear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before,
but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
- Ram Dass
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
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
When you think you're out of time,
smile, and turn back the clock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the World Frowns, I Smile Back.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If we are to go forward, we must go back
and rediscover those precious values -
that all reality hinges on moral foundations
and that all reality has spiritual control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
- Robert Cushing
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every moment wasted looking back
keeps us from moving forward.
- Hilary Clinton
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
We are tied to the ocean.
And when we go back to the sea,
whether it is to sail or to watch -
we are going back from whence we came.
- John F. Kennedy
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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