From Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning

“Man’s Search for Meaning” (Viktor E. Frankl)

There is no reason to pity old people.  Instead, young people should envy them.  It is true that the old have no opportunities, no possibilities in the future.  But they have more than that.  Instead of possibilities in the future, they have realities in the past — the potentialities they have actualized, the meanings they have fulfilled, the values they have realized — and nothing and nobody can ever remove these assets from the past,

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In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured…people..forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deed done, the loves loved, and last but not least, the sufferings they have gone through with courage and dignity.