“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”

“Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW”

“And since that is not how it has been for a long time, you want, this time, to make it last, this glistening one moment, this cool air, this new living, so that you can preserve a feeling of it, inasmuch as when it comes again it may just be too late. You may just be too old. And in truth, of course, this may be the last time that you will ever feel this way again.”

“What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.”

“We may writhe in agony from painOr laugh out loud when we find happinessAs long as we're alive tomorrow will comewe become stronger and keep on livingWe were born to live”