"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."

Life

"Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."

Presence

"The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life."

Responsibility

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it."

Trust

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

Courage

"All pain is the same."

Pain

"Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce."

Responsibility

"You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it."

Compassion

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

Mindfulness

"When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!"

Optimism