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Claire Booth's avatar

Older years. (Sorry, accidental finger jabs on my phone.) do you know the quote I am talking about?

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James Sherrett's avatar

I do! Terrific reference and great addition to the story. Here's the closest I've found:

"Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/131993-thoroughly-unprepared-we-take-the-step-into-the-afternoon-of

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Claire Booth's avatar

What worked in your younger years no longer works in your

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Claire Booth's avatar

As I read this part I was thinking of was thinking of Carl Jung’s quote about can’t live your afternoons the same way as your mornings as you mature.

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