{"quotes":[{"text":"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["age","aging","angel","angels","aspiration","attitude","clock","cry","crying","divine","elder","elderly","enjoy","face","failure","fear","fears","fountains","future","god","god-streams","growing-old","hands-of-time","heaven","heavenly","inspiration","lake","laugh","laughing","laughter","life","life-abd-living","life-philosophy","living","living-in-the-present","living-life","living-well","old","past","play","playing","pond","pool","positive","present","reflect","reflection","river","senior","sing","singing","smile","smiling","social","stream","tear","tears","time","today","tomorrow","years","yesterday","young","youth"],"id":16573,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["change-the-world","desire","elder","enjoy-the-works","entrepreneur","opportunity","wanting","youngster"],"id":32499,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abilities","ability","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","boy","boys","childfree","childless","dead","deep","develop","development","dictum","dictums","elder","elderly","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","grow","growth","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","loss","made-me-think","make-you-think","man","maxim","maxims","men","old","old-age","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":59768,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate word. I see the stars as a part of the universe, and having spent my life behind walls, suddenly having none fills me with both awe and terror. Emotion courses through my veins, choking me. I feel so insignificant, a tiny speck surrounded by a million stars.A million suns.Centuries away is Sol. Circling around it is Sol-Earth, the planet Amy came from. And one of these other stars is the Centauri binary system, where the new planet spins, waiting for us.And here we are, in the middle, surrounded by a sea of stars.Any of them could hold a planet. Any of them could hold a home.But all of them are out of reach.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["a-million-suns","across-the-universe","amy","atu-series","awe","choking","earth","elder","emotion","galaxy","home","out-of-reach","planets","sea-of-stars","stars","terror","universe","unreachable"],"id":76602,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your responsibility. You can never show weakness in front of them: you are their strength. You can never let them see you in despair: you are their hope. You must always be everything to everyone on board.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["across-the-universe","care","decisions","elder","eldest","expectations","hope","strength","weakness"],"id":84650,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["adults","elder","gift","old","years"],"id":94424,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.And then we see the end.Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But they explode together. In space, they don’t make the familiar mushroom cloud. They don’t make the boom! Of an exploding bomb.There is, against the dark sky, a brief flash of light. It is filled with colors, like a nebula or the aurora borealis, bursting like a popped bubble.Nothing else—no sound of an explosion, no tremors in the earth, no smell of smoke. Not here, on the surface of the planet.Nothing else to signify Elder’s death.Just light.And then it’s gone.And then he’s gone.","author":"Beth Revis","tags":["across-the-universe","atu-series","aurora","burst","dead","death","elder","galaxy","gone","lost","nebula","shades-of-earth","sky","stars","universe"],"id":97325,"author_id":"Beth+Revis"},{"text":"Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.And your body has been cursed with it.”Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades.","author":"Kia Carrington-Russell","tags":["beast","being","blades","body","book","crystal","curse","elder","elders","energy","fantasy","form","immortal","materialise","possession","pure","quote","three","writing-life"],"id":169595,"author_id":"Kia+Carrington-Russell"},{"text":"Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adults","age","baby","children","circle-of-life","elder","funny","funny-but-true","generalization","humans","humor","life","people","problems","psychology","stages-of-life","stereotype","teenager","young-adults"],"id":174167,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}