Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Things do not change; we change.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Money does not change people, people change.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Change in all things is sweet.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.