“Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to take advice.” — Ecclesiastes 4:13 · Book of Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Bible
“Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.” — Proverbs 16:31 · Book of Proverbs, Hebrew Bible
“Some things are worth more after they've been broken. The repair is the evidence that they were worth saving.”
“The break is part of the object's story. Making it invisible doesn't heal it. It just makes you carry it alone.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” — Socrates · Attributed in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers