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Category: ageing

Posted on April 11, 2022

“My friends are my estate.”—Emily Dickinson, American poet, 1830-1886

Posted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

“Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.”—Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panthers founder, 1905-1995

Posted on March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on March 6, 2022March 6, 2022

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”—Susan Ertz, Anglo-American novelist, 1894-1985

Posted on March 5, 2022March 5, 2022

“No one is able to flee from death or love.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on March 4, 2022

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that g_____mn mountain.”—Jack Kerouac, American novelist & poet, 1922-1969

Posted on February 24, 2022February 23, 2022

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

Posted on February 17, 2022

“Fat is a feminist issue.”—Susie Orbach, British psychotherapist, 1946-

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”—J.B. Priestley, English novelist, 1894-1984

Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

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