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Friday, December 30, 2011

2011年的最後一天,來看這些歲月的滄桑,並祝大家新年快樂

Stronger by Weakness II:

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become

As they draw near to their eternal home.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view

That stand upon the threshold of the new.

- Edmund Waller



Lhasa, Tibet



Every wrinkle is but a notch in the

quiet calendar of a well-spent life.


- Charles Dickens



Croatia




France





The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

- Frank Lloyd Wright



Tibet



It takes a long time to become young.

- Pablo Picasso



Myanmar/Burma



Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

- Garson Kanin




Afghanistan



Old age has its pleasures, which, though different,

are not less than the pleasures of youth.

- W. Somerset Maugham



Paraguay




Preah Khan, Cambodia



Warning


When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple

with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves

and satin candles, and say we’ve no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired

and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells

and run my stick along the public railings

and make up for the sobriety of my youth…

- Jenny Joseph



Cuba



Those who love deeply never grow old;

they may die of old age, but they die young.

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher



Tibet



The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy

and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable.

I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was

dying of tuberculosis.


- Leon Edel



Shanghai, China



When we’re young we have faith in what is seen,

but when we’re old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.


– Maxwell Anderson



Brazil




Vrindivan, India




The great secret that all old people share is that you really

haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years.


Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.

- Doris Lessing




Afghan refugee, Pakistan




Porbandar, Gujarat, India



Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

-Plato



Macedonia




Yemen



A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life:

maturity reached slowly and
against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and

despairs overcome, and
unconscious risks taken; maturity formed

through so many desires, hopes, regrets,
forgotten things, loves.

A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell





Rajasthan, India




Pakistan




Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries

for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who

have used him well;
making them old men and women inexorably

enough, but leaving their
hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.



With such people the grey head is but the impression of the

old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but

a
notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

- Charles Dickens




Shanghai, China



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