It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that aging is a personal experience rather than a measure of time itself.
This quote highlights the idea that it is not the passage of days that makes one feel old, but rather one's own perception and mindset about aging. It implies that vitality and youthfulness are tied to oneβs attitude and outlook on life, rather than just the number of years lived.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life changes, one could say this quote to highlight the importance of youthfulness in spirit.
I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.
Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.
You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
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