The Healthy Benefits of Aging | Aging Well with Grace

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 26 July 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Listen to episode 79 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Healthy Benefits of Aging (Aging Well with Grace). Edited and adapted from Essays of an Optimist by John William Kaye. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: One of the great advantages of age is that we are not wont to disturb ourselves by doing things that we do not like, simply for the look of the thing. There is absolute misery in pretentiousness of all kinds, and youth is infinitely more pretentious than age. There are some people who never outlive their vanity; but, as a general rule, it may be maintained that the longer we live, the less we care what others think of us, and the less we strive after effect. We learn, in time, how little we can ever know, and how ridiculous we make ourselves by pretending to know everything. When we have learned to say, "I am as ignorant as a child on this or that subject" or, "as powerless as a baby to do this or that thing," we have mastered one of the great difficulties of life; we have entered upon a new stage of our career.... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to you in part by Book of Zen,
0:17.6	makers of wearable inspiration for a better world.
0:21.2	Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from
0:24.3	Essays of an Optimist by John William K., published in 1870.
0:48.3	I am growing old, and according to all received opinions, I ought not to like it at all. I ought to feel very sad and serious over my lost youth. It is certain that it will never come back again. Once
0:59.0	gone, it is gone forever. I know that nothing can bring back the hour of glory to the grass,
1:06.1	of splendor to the flower. The verdant, grassy, flowery state has lapsed into the great limbo of the past.
1:16.9	It has become a reminiscence.
1:20.3	Am I therefore to bewail it?
1:23.5	Or is it wiser to accept this situation? The answer, of course, is accept it.
1:31.2	And more than that, accept and be grateful for it,
1:36.0	throwing up my thanks in full faith that if the glory and the splendor have departed,
1:42.5	new glories and new splendors have taken their place.
1:47.0	It is a very pleasant thought that life is made up of compensations.
1:53.0	All nature teaches this one grand lesson.
1:58.0	There is seed time and there is summer. There is harvest and there is winter.
2:05.6	When autumn comes upon us, when the roses have long since gone, and the leaves on the trees
2:12.6	are yellow and falling, are we to regret that it is no longer summer and that the greenery has departed?
2:20.3	Have not the rich tints of the autumnal foliage, peculiar beauties of their own?
2:28.3	As time takes away, so it gives. As it empties, so it replenishes.
2:37.0	There is a process of restoration and compensation ever at work in the physical world.
2:45.0	And is it not so also in the spiritual?
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