Colleen Mccullough Inspirational Quotes (28)

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to them as if there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.