“Our old friend maturity again! Well, I'm not going to be bullied by that one.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. — Nancy Astor Copy Share Image
“(You know you've reached middle-age if...) when you hear 'Boys in the hood' you think of the Ku Klux Klan.” — Joey Green Copy Share Image
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
The hell with the aging process. It happens to everyone - you just keep your mind active, you keep physically active. — Katharine Ross Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Wisdom is having the courage to hang on when you want to let go. Courage is having the strength to let go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maturity is when a person hurts you and you try to understand why they act that way towards you. As the result,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time… — Jenna Lyons Copy Share Image
I think we have to change our perspective. I don't think life stops after 50 - if anything, it gets more and… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
“There are various theories about why the years seem to pass faster as you get older. The most popular is also the… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“We had visions in those days, a number of us did. Your young men will have visions and your old men will… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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