Quotes

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003

I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003