“Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.”
Gerald Brenan
Category: Quotes to Consider
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Quote to Consider: Upon Achieving Yet Another Birthday
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Quote to Consider: On Speaking Up
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”Robert Frost
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Quote to Consider: Make-Work is Fake-Work
“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”Marge Piercy
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Quote to Consider: So Desperate For It We Miss It
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”Soren Kierkegaard
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Quote to Consider: Two from Flannery O’Connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.”“Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.”
Flannery O’Connor
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Quote to Consider: Two Roads…
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I—I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost
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Quote to Consider: Where Change is Needed Most
“Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”Leo Tolstoy
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Quote to Consider: The Confidence of Youth
“(America is the country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”Oscar Wilde
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Quote to Consider: Potential Investment
“Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
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Quote to Consider: Integrity Check
“It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit.”Josh Billings (1818–1885)