Gabriell

“From this one may see that there is no reason to pity old people. Instead, young people should envy them. It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future. But they have more than that. Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past - the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized - and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“From the moment we’re born we’re constantly dying, not only with each stage of life but also one day at a time. Our bodies are no longer the ones to which our mothers gave birth, as Marcus put it. Nobody is the same person he was yesterday. Realizing this makes it easier to let go: we can no more hold on to life than grasp the waters of a rushing stream.”
― Donald J. Robertson, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

“It is strange this life, for the things we are scared of, we find no longer scare us with time. It's like when you run and run and then after a long time, you look over your shoulder and find there is no one chasing you. You wonder what it was you have been running away from all this time. Many of our fears are but imagined ones bearing little resemblance to what is real. How much better our lives would have been had we known this while we were still young. How much more wisely we would have acted.”
― Arlene J. Chai, The Last Time I Saw Mother

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning