
Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 15
Source: "Padma Lakshmi, 51, Shares Her Top Tip for ‘Growing Older Gracefully’" in Prevention https://www.prevention.com/beauty/a38151329/padma-lakshmi-aging-tip/ (4 November 2021)
Source: Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It (1993), p. 15
2010s
Context: The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 237. Part 8 : How I Conquered Worry,
“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?”
Combien de choses nous servoyent hier d’articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd’huy?
Book I, Ch. 27
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
“He didn’t regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.”
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 342
“The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.”
Variant: The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
Source: Rant
“We don’t,” she said, somewhat shamefaced. “But we learned to read, and once one can read, one can learn anything.”
Source: Singer from the Sea (1999), Chapter 17, “Merdune Lagoon” (p. 272)