Live every single day doing something relevant; single days sum up to make great ages!

We hold onto our flaws because they are insurance for our failures. Every fear serves a purpose. When we cling to unhelpful beliefs and old fears, we can blame failure on them. Growth requires the...

I’ve been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright.

A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his...

Old dogs lives longer by learning new tricks

If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the...

Ophelia,’ said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn’t like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad and as though he expected more from her.’And how do you know my...

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was...

Too young to care; Too old to change.

…you never knows where a spark may drop and a fire begin to run.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.

A Second Childhood.”When all my days are endingAnd I have no song to sing,I think that I shall not be too oldTo stare at everything;As I stared once at a nursery doorOr a tall tree...

Wisdom comes through suffering or old age.

I read the title from the cover. ‘ ‘The joy of… crap.’ ‘ I read the rest of the full title of the thick, nondescript volume to myself and felt myself redden.Noah turned over on...

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those...

An old dog lives longer when it learns new tricks

We’re stars, you know. Different, distant, young and old, but we’re all made of the same stuff. We all shine just as bright as the next.

People forget that old women were young once, but d’you think we old women forget? In my heart, I’m still thirty.

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself!

one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don’t take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

I wondered if that’s what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old...

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones resound in the...

Many grow old with ages, but some attains age with wisdom.

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding away from the old ways of being and behaving, so that you were gradually...

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

Death is almost never timely, even for the old.

An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks

The closer I get, the faster I have to go. Otherwise, I might be late to the very place where I’m not even expected. Adding to my tardiness is the fact that I don’t even...

I don’t ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don’t have the power, alas.

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional...

She had died, I just never told her. So still, we walk, eat and sleep together, in fear one day she’ll come to realize it.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He’s not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced....

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked…

…love grown dutiful is love grown olda withered cupid faltering at the bow…

The old resists the new one.’Change hurts’ is the reason.

I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the...

People exiled in the past and disowning the present may build the wealth but not the future.

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

Life should only be a competition between your new and old self, with the motive of creating a better you in the future.

Time is as old as God.