#old age

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#balance #being #brave #crucial #enough

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#fifty #forty #old #old age #youth

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#cheerful #heart #hopeful #keep #kindly

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#beautiful #become #both #bring #day

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age. ↗

— Dorothy Dix

#age #cannot #dependence #indulging #old

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. ↗

— Antiphanes

#ills #old #old age #refuge #sanctuary

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. ↗

— Bjork

#feminist #i #maybe #old #old age

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#around #been #family #friends #good

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #freedom #great #great discovery #i