One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Alain De Botton
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity...
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity...
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity...
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity...
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The saying is an allusion to the belief that, with age, it is easier to accept change. It can be adapted to life in general. We are told that every situation in life will be passed through at some time or another, and that is what gives us the strength to deal with it.

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