The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not fighting the old, but on building the new.
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The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.
Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old — that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.
Let old ones go. Don’t be a memory-monger! Once you were young – now you are even younger.
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they’re fifty?
In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
