Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored
Alice WalkerRead
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that turning 60 should symbolize a return to innocence and joy in life, emphasizing the importance of happiness in old age.
Alice Walker reflects on a South Korean belief that turning 60 represents a new beginning in life, akin to being a baby again where joy is paramount. This perspective highlights the wisdom in valuing happiness and the freedom from societal expectations as one ages, suggesting that the focus should shift to personal joy and contentment rather than burdens or responsibilities.
Themes
HappinessWisdomAgingJoyFreedom
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech celebrating elder citizens, one might reference this quote to emphasize the joy of aging.
More from Alice Walker
All quotes →June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerRead
On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.
Alice WalkerRead
I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.
Alice WalkerRead
How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
Alice WalkerRead
One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.
Alice WalkerRead
Similar quotes
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
Mother AngelicaRead
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
ThucydidesRead
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Andrew CarnegieRead
It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.
Edward GlaeserRead
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In _x000D_ God's Eyes.
RumiRead
We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.
John PiperRead