Ability Quote by Alan Bennett

“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“The older I get, the less I enjoy the presence of other people.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“Now I know better. The secret to aging more cheerfully is to play like a child.”

— Heather Lende

“Maintaining my youth has aged me greatly.”

— D W Wilkin

“As a young girl I thought, with fervent hope, that ten years was some kind of magic formula. That if I were seventeen instead…

— Gwen Hayes

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“I had been very grown-up when I was in primary school. But as I continued through secondary-school, I in fact became less grown-up. And…

— Hiroki Kawakami

“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“I remember that we are all young, and I feel youngness in me, that I can keep trying. You can try a hundred things…

— Elana Dykewomon

“...although I'm eighty years old, I still consider myself a student. ... Every day learning, learning.”

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams