It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high. The Measure of My Days 1968 I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies.
It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and use our human abilities. . . . In sum, our development does not necessarily end at any age. We can continue to develop in our eighties even to our nineties. A person of sixty can grow as much as a child of six. The later years are a time for self-development, emancipation, a spiritual growth.