A GOOD OLD AGE Inspirational thoughts selected by Helen Nearing Old age is one of the most unexpected of all things that happen to man. Every man desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Few people know how to be old.
I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age. But I don't keep it long enough. It passes too quickly.