235 Quotes About Decline

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

The body’s decline creeps like a vine. Day to day, the changes can be imperceptible. You adapt. Then something happens that finally makes it clear that things are no longer the same.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.

Diminishing returns is the outcome of restriction

Maybe the last thing that we want to do should be the first thing that we choose to do. And in the society that I see unfolding around me, maybe that thing should be the surrender of everything that we are to everything that God is.

When we ask God to leave, He does so. And in the leaving, He takes everything with Him that is of Him. Consequently, that means that we invite in everything that is not of Him. And we might be wise to consider the nature of that invitation and if we really want to extend it.

Not that I had any intention of accosting him to propose any practical agreement. That would have demanded on Laura's part a degree of devotion, of understanding, a detached view of the purely animal act of love, such as could not be expected of so young a woman who was so subject conventions of comportment in a society that had always shown itself incapable of differentiating between love and sexuality.

Choose to decline in negative thought so you can rise in wisdom, optimism, love, and friendship. It is always our choice how we think, act and respond to life.