Stronger By Weakness

Lhasa, Tibet 

 

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
-Edmund Waller

 

 

 Gujarat, India

 

 

Vrindavan, India
 

 

Kham, Tibet

 

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. 
- Frank Lloyd Wright

 

 

 Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

 

 Jalalabad, Afghanistan

 

 

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Garson Kanin

 

 

Myanmar/Burma 

 

 

 Rajasthan, India

 

 Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. 
Mark Twain, Following the Equator

 

 

 Brazil

 

 

Pakistan

 

 

Filadelfia, Paraguay

 

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
- W. Somerset Maugham

 

 

Sri Lanka

 

 

Cuba 

 

 

Warning

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
and satin candles, and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth…
- Jenny Joseph

 

 

Tibet 

 

 

 Lhasa, Tibet

 

 

Kashmir

 

 

France

 

Grow old along with me.  The best is yet to be. 
- Robert Browning

 

 

France 

 

When we’re young we have faith in what is seen, but when we’re old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water.
– Maxwell Anderson