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- The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
- What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
- Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- 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, O Magazine, October 2003
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
- With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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