"Try
to keep your soul young
and quivering right up
to old age, and to
imagine right up to the
brink of death that
life is only beginning.
I think that is the
only way to keep adding
to one's talent, to
one's affections, and
one's inner
happiness."
(George Sand)
"What
a blessing it is to
outlive your
self-judgments and
harvest your
failures." (Rachel
Naomi Remen)
"How
old would you be, if
you didn't know how old
you was?" (Satchel
Paige)
"To
grow mature is to
separate more
distinctly, to connect
more closely."
(Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)
"Suffer
the growing
pains." (Liv
Ullman)
"To
grow up is to assume
responsibility for the
child within."
(author unknown)
"Every
human being on this
earth is born with a
tragedy, and it isn’t
original sin. He’s
born with the tragedy
that he has to grow up.
A lot of people don’t
have the courage to do
it." (Helen Hayes)
"...for
in every adult there
lurks a child- an
eternal child,
something that is
always becoming, is
never completed, calls
for unceasing care,
attention, and
education. That is the
part of the human
personality that wants
to develop and become
whole." (Carl
Jung)
"You
don't stop laughing
because you grow old;
you grow old because
you stop
laughing."
(Michael Pritchard)
"The
man who views the world
at fifty the same way
he did at twenty has
wasted thirty years of
his life."
(Muhammad Ali)
"To
grow old is to pass
from passion to
compassion." (Camus)
"He
not busy being born is
busy dying." (Bob
Dylan)
"The
years teach much which
the days never
know." (Waldo
Emerson)
"Nothing
is inherently and
invincibly young except
spirit. And spirit can
enter a human being
perhaps better in the
quiet of old age and
dwell there more
undisturbed than in the
turmoil of
adventure."
(George Santayana)
"Don’t
forget the lessons your
mistakes have taught
you or you’ll learn
them all over
again." (Dan
Folgelberg)
"To
be seventy years young
is sometimes far more
cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years
old." (Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr.)
"Do
our experiences become
more marvelous with age
or is it just that we
don't realize when they
occur how really
beautiful and precious
they are?" (Joseph
Cambell)
"Old
age, to the unlearned,
is winter; to the
learned, it is harvest
time."
"They
saw a woman in a wheel
chair taking quiet
pleasure in her view.
It was a mirage. She
was really a young girl
on tiptoes. Arms
outstretched. Ready to
run. Everything
wonderful waited for
Elizabeth
Quigley." (Helen
Van Slyke)
"The
evening of life brings
with it its own
lamp." (Joseph
Joubert)
