You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age your experience your psychological and spiritual need.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.
He who has not the spirit of this age has all the misery of it.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Is it a coincidence that in 1998 Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence.