As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they...

I’d prefer to die in Texas when I’m old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that’s where I entered the world, so that’s how I’ll leave it. 

It’s easy to grow old if you haven’t grown up

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my youth was ending in an explosion of unreal passion. Memories like these make my life sacred and holy.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

We live to work.Man was made to move.Without work we shall grow old quickly.

We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us,...

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

When you’re a young man like yourself, life is full of wonders. Everything new. Everything an adventure. But as the years roll on, things become ordinary. Colors lose their vibrance. Stars lose their glitter. You...

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

I just wish moments weren’t so fleeting!’ Isaac called to the man on the roof, ‘They pass so quickly!’ ‘Fleeting?!’ responded the tilling man, ‘Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man...

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.

Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made...

Algunos piensan que dejan de enamorarse cuando envejecen, sin saber que envejecen cuando dejan de enamorarse.

Butterfly KissesAged imperfectionsstitched upon my faceyears and years of wisdomearned by His holy grace.Quiet solitude in a humble homeall the family scattered nowlike nomads do they roam.Then a giftsent from abovea memorypure and tangiblewrapped in...

Wrinkles ? Why all the fuss ? Think of them as lines of distinction; marks of maturity.

One of the difficult things about growing older is that you start losing so many friends. On the other hand, the older you get, the less time you have to wait until you see them...

I’m growing fonder of my staff; I’m growing dimmer in my eyes; I’m growing fainter in my laugh; I’m growing deeper in my sighs; I’m growing careless of my dress; I’m growing frugal of my...

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them…

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting...

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we’re born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

A beautiful woman should always have at the back of her mind that her ravishing appearance is only an ephemeral quality. When she wakes up in the morning, looks into the mirror, and notices that...

Don’t grow old to give up and don’t give up growing up

Personally, I’d rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I’ve met so far. I don’t experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don’t talk about that much. It seems to...

I’m not opposed to aging – even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like...

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved...

Look, moonI turned silver for you.

Youth. I don’t seek it through another because I have it within; it’s a state of mind, a spirit that is free, and a mind that is playful. The shell of my being is altered...

You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

… there is no quicker way of growing old than undue indulgence in regular habits. Indeed it seems probable that the reason why so many people die sooner than they should is because they have...

Now, if it were up to me, I’d parcel out. So that, say, at thirty-five we just learned how to go on the potty. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment! They’d have office parties. “Did you...

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to...

You’re the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids And laughing ’til our ribs get tough But that will never be enough You’re the only friend I need Sharing beds like little kids...