Ageing Quote by Stella Gibbons

“I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. If rank and money come with love…

— Louisa May Alcott

“For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for…

— Stewart O'Nan

“And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“And whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken…

— Max Ehrmann

“Had I life to live over, I see now where I could do more; but neighbour, believe me, my highest aspiration is to be…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty…

— George Eliot

“She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so…

— Ian McEwan

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Then she would wander through fields, over simple, poor land, looking carefully and keenly all round her, still getting used to being alive in…

— Andrei Platonov

“Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...”

— Rosslyn Elliott

“There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life—blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.”

— Bear Grylls