Old
I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger'. Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Old age is a shipwreck.
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like — that part of the old is coming through the new.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business or profession can promise.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.
I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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