Elder Quotes

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
-- Jean Paul Richter

"To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future." -- Bertrand Russell

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
-- George Sand (1804 - 1876)

"Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations"
-- George Santayana (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist )

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
-- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

"Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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