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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
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"Growing older is certain, growing wiser is harder and optional."
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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
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"When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!"
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"As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty."
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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity."
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"When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost."
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"Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died..."
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"Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?"
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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
Peace
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
Teaching
"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
Knowledge
"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Psychology
"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
Life
"A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE: Tell me what to do, but it must be what I want you to tell me."
Philosophy
"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."
Knowledge
"Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought."
Wisdom
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