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“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
Plato
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anais Nin
“Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”
Aphra Behn
“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.”
Princess Diana
“Tis better to have loved and lost.
Than never to have loved at all.”Alfred Tennyson
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
Sophia Loren
“I’m going to go down getting my data. That’s the only reason I chase. It’s for the data.”
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Tim Samaras
“The greatest thing about being a scientist is you never have to grow up.”
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Carl Sagan
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
Charles Darwin
“Houston, it looks like we got us a Dragon by the tail.”
Don Pettit
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”
Albert Einstein
“Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”
Louisa May Alcott
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
Margaret Mead
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
Stanislaw Lec
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
“If you're doing something you love, an hour feels like 5 minutes. If you are doing something that doesn't resonate with your spirit, 5 minutes feels like an hour.”
Sir Ken Robinson
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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Arthur C. Clarke
“I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, 'OK, I'm looking back on my life. I want to minimize the number of regrets I have.'”
Jeff Bezos
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin
“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.”
Carl Sandburg
“I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.”
Janelle Monae