Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “joy” I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too. —Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World More about this quote Tags: love living pain joy darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living. —Rachel Marie Martin in The Brave Art of Motherhood More about this quote Tags: life living joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: joy reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: life joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth. —Donald Cargill More about this quote Tags: joy earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can tell you that the pain of living is worth it. That if you live, your life will be as full of love as it is darkness, and for every moment of pain, you'll have one of joy too. —Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World More about this quote Tags: love living pain joy darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you are actually living. —Rachel Marie Martin in The Brave Art of Motherhood More about this quote Tags: life living joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: joy reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: life joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth. —Donald Cargill More about this quote Tags: joy earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email