"Aging and death is what happens to everybody."

-- Young Jean Lee

#Aging Quotes #Happens Quotes

“Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, thereâ€™s no reason to add to everyoneâ€™s misery by looking miserable yourself.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
“It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.”
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”
“Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.”

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