"For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives."

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Source : Sherwin B. Nuland (2007). “The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being”, p.12, Random House

Sherwin B. Nuland

#Letting Go Quotes #Art Quotes #Real Quotes

“I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.”
“When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.”
“You have to always remember who your guest is, and thats who we cater to.”
“I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.”
“One thought settles a life, an immortality.”
“I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.”
“Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.”
“In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.”

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