Old
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package'. I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
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.
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