#infirmities

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met who never referred to her physical infirmities or health problems. To which she replied, "I have my difficulties; I do not rejoice in them. ↗

— Patricia Mulcahy

#ailments #infirmities #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #survival

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#advantage #age #am #cannot #conscious

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#despise #infirmities #most #our #savage

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#correct #folly #infirmities #love #mark