We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Time is the speed at which the past decays.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants.
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up. . . They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.
All perishes, all decays, all is born again.
The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.
