“Our old friend maturity again! Well, I'm not going to be bullied by that one.” — Doris Lessing 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
Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
“Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sign of maturity is not when WE start speaking big things.. But, actually it is, When YOU start understanding Small things.. — Ani Copy Share Image
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the… — Dylan Thomas 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
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
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
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
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
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“In 2024 I proudly joined the 'Women over 40' club, somehow arriving without coloring my hair, getting botox, fillers or plastic surgery.… — Elena Levon Copy Share Image
“The ideal elder may suffer from bodily ailments and weaknesses, but his mind is quick and sharp, and he has eighty years… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Like the long gone captains of the Confederacy, he stood watch at the edge of Dauphin Island, his old life just out… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
“Attempting to Soar" A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights. As soon as he’d hit sixty he’d hold his… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow. — Carl Crawford Copy Share Image
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
