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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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"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."
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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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"Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality."
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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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"Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities."
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"You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that one day she'll be old, only you don't see her grow old. But there are moments when you think you see her grow old and feel yourself growing old with her: this is the feeling of adventure."
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"The good thing about being old is not being young."
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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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"Granny Weatherwax had a primal snore. It had never been tamed. No one had ever had to sleep next to it, to curb its wilder excesses by means of a kick, a prod in the small of the back, or a pillow used as a bludgeon. It had had years in a lonely bedroom to perfect the knark, the graaah, and the gnoc, gnoc, gnoc unimpeded by the nudges, jabs, and occasional attempts at murder that usually moderate the snore impulse over time."
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"Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
Observation
"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."
Philosophy
"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."
Philosophy
"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."
Truth
"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."
Self
"Everything depends on the right perspective."
Wisdom
"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."
Growth
"To understand, one must first question everything."
Knowledge
"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."
Philosophy
"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
Generosity
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