It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
– Sylvia Townsend Warner
Related Quotes:
- She was heavier than he expected – women always are. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. – Tisha Marie Payton
- When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it. – Fay Weldon
- The man who dies rich dies disgraced leaving the earth without making it better than he met it. Give to humanity. – Adedayo Olabamiji
- Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. – Billy Graham
- Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.So that your heart mends and heals. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- It’s not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius. – Debasish Mridha
- Life is funny, when you are young you want to be older and those that are older wish to be younger. – Karon Waddell
- The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life. – Auliq Ice
- Each new day, our minds grow older; the better or bitter daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Each new day, our minds grow older; the mediocre, bitter or better daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. – Dean Koontz
- Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. – Dean Koontz
- When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. – Leif Enger
- This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. …If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives. – Arthur Tofte
- To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
- To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
- To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
- One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. – Marty Rubin
- [It’s] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 – Marcel Benabou
- …methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after. – George Gordon Byron
- You are in no man’s land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent. – Harold Pinter
- It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. – George Sand
- War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too. – Patrick Ness
- The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. – LM Montgomery
- When the leader grows, the organization grows. – Israelmore Ayivor
- You are always a gardener. What grows – and how it grows – is up to you. – Jones Loflin
- Plants and Books are silent Friends to Mankind.The former grows silently to let you live.The later grows you silently to ‘live – Sridhar Movva
- Don’t forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold-”and without the -œfuel- of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold. – Billy Graham
- When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K Le Guin
- ,Be generous, giving grows your spirit just as reading grows your intellect. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out. – Warren W Wiersbe
- Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Love Is Like A Plant.We Give It Attention,It Grows. We Ignore It,It Dies – Chris JFarah
- When the last woman dies, the last man dies! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- When someone you love dies, part of you dies with them. It’s why your never the same after losing someone. – Shannon Messenger
- He who dies with the most toys…dies a child. – James Rozoff
- When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive. – Jackie Kay