Quotes

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"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

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"And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen."

- Matthew 21:21

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"Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

- Psalm 50:15

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"For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

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“What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, a spiritually, you will have to change what you think.”

- Dr. Patrick Gentempo

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“We may sing beforehand, even in our winter storm, in the expectation of a summer sun at the turn of the year...Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord...”

- Samuel Rutherford

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“In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want.”

- Irish toast

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“Let nothing upset you, Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all their needs.”

- Theresa of Avila

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“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

- Parker Schaeffer

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“Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.”

- Sylvia Robinson

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“Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions. ”

- Unknown?

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“Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.”

- Hubert Humphrey

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“Prayer is faith passing into action. ”

- Richard Cecil

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“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”

- Maya Angelou

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“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.”

- Bishop Westcott

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“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

- Bill Cosby

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“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. ”

- Luke 12:32 (Revised Standard Version)

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“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures." — Gloria Steinem

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"The reason that they make us all youth-oriented and vain and try to think that if we get old we are of no use anymore is because we get wiser, and they know that. And when I say 'they' I mean those who are fearful of change. We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out." —Melissa Etheridge

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"I think we need to very intentionally have women friends, and we need to seek out women who are braver, who challenge us, who can teach us, and who together with them we can face age with more courage." — Jane Fonda

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'We are redefining every age of our lives. All of us are. I mean twenty-year-olds today, they aren’t where I was at twenty, and they’re in a very different world. So how can we say that we’re not different, we’re not a different kind of sixty- or seventy- or eighty-year-old? We are! So I’m just hoping for myself and for the women around me and that I come into contact with, I just hope that I’m still learning. As long as I’m learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don’t feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart, I don’t know, ageless! That’s I think because I’m still learning and still growing as a person." — Pat Mitchell

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"[Aging] is an unfortunate thing that happens. I mean, yes, you can have millions of face-lifts and all these different things that women have done to their bodies…. But personally (a) I haven't got the money for that, ( I haven't got the time for it, and © there are more important things to me than how you look. I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active." — Jane Goodall

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"I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you’re closer to dying. We may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, 'Oh, I am not immortal!' Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it’s good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating. That being said, I don’t enjoy the diminishing agility of the body! I had knee surgery last year, and I can no longer go do three yoga classes and run. You know, it’s not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it’s way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated; I’m just calmer. So it’s like everything in this human existence: it’s a trade-off. It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit." — Elizabeth Lesser

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"Well, I don’t like getting older; I have to tell you that…. But I think that what I have loved in my life are the intergenerational activities. I teach at Georgetown. It gives me an opportunity to stay very connected with the younger generation in terms of conveying information, but also getting information from them. I have always enjoyed having people of different ages around me. I have thought that was fun. I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. I really do love the idea that one can respect generations." — Madeleine Albright