Quotes for Seniors

I finished Dante's Paradise today, and I have many quotes to put on my blog. But these two quotes seemed to relate to my own position as a senior most, so I shall share them first. The first is what I would say to my mother, my teacher. In the second, I felt God speaking to me as one going into a new part of her life.

You are my sire. You give me confidence to speak. You raise my heart so high that I am more than I. My soul is overflowing with the joy that pours from many streams, and it rejoices that it endures and does not burst inside.

~Dante, Paradise, Canto 16

You shall be forced to leave behind those things you love most dearly, and this is the first arrow the bow of your exile will shoot. And you will know how salty is the taste of others' bread, how hard the road that takes you down and up the stairs of others' homes. But what will weigh you down the most will be the despicable, senseless company whom you shall have to bear in that sad vale; and all ungrateful, all completely mad and vicious, they shall turn on you, but soon their cheeks, not yours, will have to blush from shame. Proof of their bestiality will show through their own deeds! It will be to your honor to have become a party of your own.

~Dante, Paradise, Canto 17