We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck
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  2. Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. - Sarah Kay

  3. I feel the healinghands of Godtouch my heartand kiss my soul. - Harley King

  4. God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. - Jeannette Walls

  5. Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach. - Sunday Adelaja

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  1. Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

  2. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  3. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

  4. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

  5. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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