“As you get older, the more complicated things get. It's almost therapeutic to be doing simple things with the kids.”
What I've Learned
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“And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Context: So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them — I've been very fortunate that way; how I believe I've been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned: I'm a professor — there should be some lessons learned — and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.”
Lexie Darnell, Chapter 16, p. 196
2000s, At First Sight (2005)
“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Source: The Poems of Robert Browning
"Quo Vadimus?" http://books.google.com/books?id=vvEvAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Did+it+ever+occur+to+you+that+there's+no+limit+to+how+complicated+things+can+get+on+account+of+one+thing+always+leading+to+another%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage, The Adelphi (January 1930)
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 28 (p. 541)
“Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
Variant: It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
Source: Every Day