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“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINS
Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.
Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.
Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!
Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Laugh, I tell you
And you will turn back
The hands of time.
Smile, I tell you
And you will reflect
The face of the divine.
Sing, I tell you
And all the angels will sing with you!
Cry, I tell you
And the reflections found in your pool of tears -
Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday
To guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Wenna followed us out. "You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again," she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. "You'll come back?"
"Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.”
― Bloodhound
"Of course," Goodwin said. "But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.”
― Bloodhound
“You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!”
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“She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
― Old Man's War
― Old Man's War
“I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.”
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
― Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
“Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.”
― The Servant as Leader
― The Servant as Leader
“In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.”
― Bury Your Dead
― Bury Your Dead
“I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.”
― Winter Town
― Winter Town
“I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.”
― Healology
― Healology
“By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.”
― Tehanu
― Tehanu
“A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.”
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“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.”
― The Chronicles of Clovis
― The Chronicles of Clovis
“When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...”
― If It's Not Too Much Trouble
― If It's Not Too Much Trouble
“Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.”
― Redwork
― Redwork
“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The summer catch had been poor; there wasn't much food. They ate with care and looked sideways at the old: the old were gluttons, everybody knew it, and what was the good of feeding them? It wouldn't harm them to starve a little.
The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North")”
― The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
The hungry dogs howled. The women rinsed the children's bellies with hot water three times a day, so they wouldn't cry so much for food. The old starved silently. ("The North")”
― The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
“I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.”
― On the Bus With Rosa Parks
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.”
― On the Bus With Rosa Parks
“But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not sleep. That is how it is with folks my age. We take naps during the day, and then we cannot sleep at night. I think that it is because God is getting us ready for the grave. Is that right? Did He ever tell you? ("The Little Stranger")”
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
― American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“You make it to a hundred and ten you can do whatever you want. White people haven't killed you yet, you get a free pass.”
― Crook Manifesto
― Crook Manifesto
“If white people haven't killed you yet, you can do what you want. You didn't have to reach a hundred years to get to that place. In a world this low, dumb, and cruel, every day white people ain't killed you yet is a win. It was after midnight. He'd survived another gauntlet.”
― Crook Manifesto
― Crook Manifesto
“Every day, I live with guilt about my mother’s death in a hospice as do thousands of other Australians and people from around the world. Yet society wants to sanitise euthanasia, sending us down a slippery slope of grey and murky murderous acts.”
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“When you reach our age, everyone wants to keep you alive with granola. Consider this breakfast an act of liberation. I got greasy egg sandwiches, bacon, and hash browns.”
― Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.
― Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.
“Dealing with a stubborn, medically challenged parent later becomes an integral component within our grief process.”
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“I've seen death's bastard face many times. Ain't come for me yet, the prick.' - the old mumblecrust.”
― The Darkest Core
― The Darkest Core
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