he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
“I felt old. Again. It had been happening a lot lately. I did not live the life of an old lady, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not an easy task understanding myself. And because, as I was aging, I was becoming more and more an unknown… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The… — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have written and spoken my thoughts over many years. Now I'm on new ground and spirit. I want to bring these… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Although a youth culture was in evidence by the 1950s, the first obvious and dramatic manifestation of a culture generated by peer-orientation… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has. — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him! — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work… — William Devane Copy Share Image
Maturity is not when you start speaking big things , its when you start understanding small things . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not… — Christine Lahti Copy Share Image
Love is an immature feeling. When maturity comes in between then there is no love. — Anuraj Copy Share Image
A lack of restful sleep disrupts the body's innate balance, weakens our immune system, and speeds up the aging process. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do… — Sheila Kaye-Smith Copy Share Image
Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr. Poopy… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Aging gracefully is recognizing that inner beauty is more meaningful than outer beauty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
