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A quotation from Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) American writer, poet, critic, editor
“Leaves from a Notebook,” Ponkapog Papers (1903)

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A quotation from Horace

Years foll’wing Years, steal something ev’ry day,
At last they steal us from our selves away;
In one our Frolicks, one Amusements end,
In one a Mistress drops, in one a Friend:
This subtle Thief of Life, this paltry Time,
What will it leave me, if it snatch my Rhime?

[Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum;
tendunt extorquere poemata: quid faciam vis?]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 2 “To Julius Florus,” l. 55ff (2.2.55-57) (14 BC) [tr. Pope (1737)]

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Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives

#music #importance #emotions #memories #senses #GrowingOld

The importance of music in our lives. Photograph of Adrian Segar's iPod, showing a smart playlist of music he loves

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
-- George Bernard Shaw

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A quotation from John Adams

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
(Attributed)

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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

The challenge is to age as successfully as we can. For society, the challenge of successful ageing is a paramount issue touching on all aspects of life -- social, economic, medical and spiritual. For the individual, the challenge is to reach old age in optimum health and to develop the resources and attitudes to preserve independence and quality of life for as long as possible.
-- Tom Kirkwood

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

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 (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 13 “Family” (1930)

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A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

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They say that you are old when you don't find young comedians funny.

No problem there. I find new comedians all the time.

BUT something happened around my 50th birthday: I lost interest in new music. As in I actively look up new music and the only things I like is what sounds like old music.

#GrowingOld #Music

Middle-aged power unlocked! 📢

I can now tell the difference between a new wiry silver nose hair and the rest of my dark brown ones by its feel in my schnozz alone! 👃
🥸

Anyone have any other pokey silver nose hair advantages?

#GrowingOld #Wisdom #OldFart #Humor

My extra-long, two-litre #HotWaterBottle is turning out to be the best thing since the best thing ever. It warms all of me, and it warms me all night. After two snug nights, I'm astonished by how big an advance it is over a standard hot water bottle.

#GrowingOld

Extra-long two-litre hot water bottle with cover

Did you know of Explain XKCD ?

These ones are moving.
Two years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1141:_Two_Years
Seven years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1928:_Seven_Years
Ten years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2386:_Ten_Years
Fifteen years: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3172:_Fifteen_Years

#XKCD #GrowingOld

A quotation from Seymour Hicks

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Seymour Hicks (1871-1949) British actor, playwright, producer
(Attributed)

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Yesterday and today. Today’s cartoon by Thiago Lucas. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#GrowingOld #FatherAndSon #generations

Cartoon showing a son standing, feeding his elderly father, who is sitting on a chair. The shadow these two persons cast shows a father feeding his young son.

Music is important in my life. I want to sing along when the spirit moves me and feel the intense emotions that music has the power to grant.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2018/10/the-importance-of-music-in-our-lives

#music #importance #emotions #memories #senses #GrowingOld

A quotation from David Eddings

A man my age is willing to accept almost anything. After the initial shock of astonishment that comes each morning when I wake up and discover that I’m still alive, I can face the day with an open mind.

David Eddings (1931-2009) American writer
The Shining Ones, Part 1, ch. 7 [Fontan] (1993)

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A quotation from Le Guin

I feel like I was walking across Nevada, like the pioneers, carrying a lot of stuff I need, but as I go along I have to keep dropping off things. I had a piano once but it got swamped at a crossing of the Platte. I had a good frypan but it got too heavy and I left it in the Rockies. I had a couple ovaries but they wore out around the time we were in the Carson Sink. I had a good memory but pieces of it keep dropping off, have to leave them scattered around in the sage brush, on the sand hills.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

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