But think of these things as sent to enrich your nature, and to make you more human and sympathetic. You are missing them if you permit yourself instead to grow melancholy and irritable. It is weak and unreasonable to imagine destiny has selected you for special suffering. Sorrow is no respector of persons. Do not tell me you are too old.
Age is all imagination.
Ignore years and they will ignore you. Eat moderately, and bathe freely in water as cold as nature's rainfall. Exercise thoroughly and regularly. Be alive, from crown to toe. Breathe deeply, filling every cell of the lungs for at least five minutes, morning and night, and when you draw in long, full breaths, believe you are in- haling helth, wisdom and success.