In her own words;
Judi Dench
“Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humor though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
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Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritise your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritise the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better.
How true. Hold on to firm beliefs. For me Christ in you the hope of glory. Be sure of what you are. Where you and whose you are. The future is eternal life In Christ. Blessings Richard
The wonderful Dame Judi Dench did not say those words. The poet Donna Ashworth wrote them.
Thank you for putting the frame around Judi’s wise words and setting them into God’s eternal context.
So we’ll said my friend
He is my hope of glory
I agree – everything is true in this poem, but eternal wisdom and acceptance come through Jesus Christ. He teaches that nothing is ours anyway, our spirit will return to God – home at last x
So very true!! Tyvm and tc!! God loves us all!! ❤️
I am so upset at what appears to be God forgetting about me because of the pain i am experiencing right now in my back. I’ve always felt i had a pretty good connection to our Lord, but for the last two days, in spite of my constant prayers , He is silent.
I am sorry that I might have overstepped my bounds, spilling my guts to a stranger. I just need you to pray for me.
Thank you.
Great words. But the irony of the advertisement for fasting for all body types was not missed.
Not words by Judi but by the poet Donna Ainsworth.
Donna Ashworth
From what Book of Donna’s pls ☀️
These words you credit to Dame Judi Dench were in fast written by the poet, Donna Ashworth. Don’t you guys check your information for pete’s sake?!
These words were written by Donna Ashworth!
These are not the words of Judi Dench but those of Donna Ashworth
Judi didn’t write these words it was a lovely poet Donna Ashworth
This is so true 7 years ago my life changed its been a lo g battle but I have pulled through it
I agree with Judi – partly because I was told as a child I was plain Jane – so have never had expectations of looking other than what I am. I have been and seen many places in 22 years of widowhood, but since Covid life has got narrower somehow. Now having reached 80s I’m still hoping to enjoy life – even if I don’t get to travel very far.
Beautiful! And the absolute best aspiration!
Hi Diane,
I am 82, I am not hoping to enjoy my life, but beginning to enjoy my life more and more. You might asked how, and I will reply with; by allowing every moment to be as it is, not fighting it or resisting, but just experiencing what Life brings me, what it offers me. All of it is serving me, although I may not fully get it right away, the wisdom comes. It’s like opening a present and raising my awareness.
This is the beauty and JOY of Life, when I receive it.
Wisdom personified!!!!
She like looks mellows, as you anger the next chapter of your life . You begin to see things clearly or should I say more revenant , to your journey. The jigsaw pieces comes together … good .. bad .or indifferent,who cares .
Risk are not in port ant,but exciting,as you throw away your fears, vulnerabilities.and head towards your journey.
This is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you so much.
I cannot say enough accolades for this genius beautiful woman. Thank you for all the art you have given us, not to be matched. Every phase of acting, it belongs to her and on top of that a great sense of humor..Love you
Love this ❤️
So well said
Thank you 🙏 made me feel better
I needed this. Thank you for your wisdom, humility, passion & humor. You are and forever will be simply beautiful.
Beautiful words whoever wrote them – a pity some people couldn’t practice them but just take the opportunity to complain. A simple: “the words were originally by the poet Donna Ashworth but obviously adopted by Judi Dench who personifies them, reflecting an inner beauty that also grows with age” would, in my mind, have been kinder and more in keeping with the sentiment. Thank you Donna and Judi. I have copied them into my book of special quotes to revisit from time to time when I look in the mirror and wonder who is looking back at me? 🙏🙂
My sentiments exactly….no matter who originally penned these words, they speak the truth. I too have copied these sentiments to reflect on from time to time. It’s a much more in depth, beautiful woman’s perspective of Oscar Wilde’s saying: Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Beautiful, kindness in elevation of comments.
Well said! (For all of us who want the meat and don’t want to be bothered by the details!)
What you say is so true, however if the writer/author/poster of this article had written your words upfront the comments would have been much more enjoyable. And the word plagiarism would not have come to mind.
I gots a boner! 😂😁😅
Another day on the Internet. I see the beginning of what might be a worthwhile poem, so click to read the full thing. My intuition rewarded, it is a lovely work of simple but laser-true wisdom, written simply, too, with an eloquence that surprises no-one who loves Dame Judi.
Ohhh, whoopsie, it’s not by Judi? Well, I trust my fellow readers who say it was written by someone else, so the site may be poorly edited. Then there are the expected advertisements, but these are excessive in quantity, vulgar in quality. Then the final straw, or maybe not–every third comment seems to come straight out of a prayer revival, not a shared love of poetry. Oh Lordy! When, oh when, will the religiously devout amongst us, usually Christians, realize that public space in a literate, prosperous democracy, is, by long and broad consensus, a secular space? That means non-religious, not anti-religion. This is especially true in America, the first and foremost defender of a strict separation of church and state. The assertions I make here are not to be taken as anti-religious. Quite to the contrary, I grew up in a very devout family, and I am grateful that in our democracy we are utterly free to practice the faith we love, pursue the beliefs we choose, interpret the world in the way that makes the most sense to us, without the interference of government or the derogation of other religions or the frown of a next-door neighbor. Freedom of religion has always been a sacred safeguard in America, and that guarantee, expressed beautifully in the 1st Amendment to our Constitution, honors the corollary: Americans enjoy freedom from religion, as robustly as the freedom to choose religion. The freedom to believe what we want would be worthless without the option not to believe it. Please think this through in case they banned the reading of the Bill of Rights in your school district. Freedom from religion is presumed along with, and inseparable from, freedom of religion.
So please, dear faithful–if you are impelled to say “Thank God,” or “God bless that woman,” fine. But more than that–such as mini-lectures on the love Jesus has for us all, or the glory immanent with the Second Coming,–is an imposition on those sharing the venerable Town Square of America–all our dear public spaces. To cross over that line of secular respect is very unsettling to many Americans. Launching into a two-or three-sentence mini-sermon is truly inconsiderate to those with different beliefs. It is as unwelcome as walking to the park and finding a huge big-box franchise now sitting where a playground, tennis courts and rose garden once did. In other words, we all have to live in your reality when you commandeer a comment section with prayers. It’s like turning up the volume on an amplified radio so no other people can hear their music, or no music.
Freedom of religion, including from religion, Dear Pilgrim, is why America was founded! Our forefathers carved out of this tendentious world a nation where freedom of belief was a real and sacred thing; where the looming presence of other beliefs did not saturate the air we all breathe, the sound-waves we use to communicate.
It may trouble you to imagine this, but nearly everyone has a personal set of beliefs, and most people do not agree with mine or yours. Our success as a society that millions of people admire, and just as many want to join, is thanks to the rock-solid wall we place between the local park and the local church–not like the walls rising in more troubled societies–walls between people.
Thank you for listening. And thanks for your devotion to your beliefs. Whether we share the same ones or not, the very act of wonder about this world, of deliberation on what is right or wrong, of arriving at serious moral convictions, are all evidence of rational life. These deliberations and convictions have animated America for over two centuries plus two decades. That’s a huge, even heavenly, dose of devotion!
Buen este tema. Brillante tu punto de vista.
This is my first time visit at here and i am actually happy to read
everthing at alone place.
I am 91 and while the words are not Judi’s but a lovely poet she has quoted .I agree with them .Life is what you make it at any age
Simply said you are beautiful, and it made my day. How true and He is the one we need to turn to. Thank you for this and I too will copy it so that I can read it every day!!!