Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you would have the time of your life. — Nate Copy Share Image
“I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep… — Céline Copy Share Image
Have the maturity to know that sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in. — Joyce Van Patten Copy Share Image
“The financial security of older training analysts in power and the distraction from the ordinary uncertainties of aging may play an important… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and… — George Sweeting Copy Share Image
“The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path,… — F.T. McKinstry Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. — William Brewster Copy Share Image
“Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of… — Juliet Castle Copy Share Image
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging… — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different. — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?” — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
Everyone gets obsessed with anti-aging but I'd rather look as good as I can at the age I am. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I rolled my eyes." Has anyone told you you have the maturity level of a four-year-old?” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Elders say, Oh dear when they hear I'm near. Rubber burn first gear, platinum on my first year. — Yung Joc Copy Share Image
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