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.

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.

You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead

I will age for you, if it pleases you. I will match you, wrinkle for wrinkle, grey hair for grey hair, crease for crease, wrinkle for wrinkle. You will be so beautiful when you are...

Save your mind from a premature death by always learning something new no matter your age! Think every day, but make sure it’s not within the perimeter of the box! Think outside the box!

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I...

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

Ik ben niet bevreesd, noch voor de ouderdom noch voor de dood, maar berusting is me schrikbeeld. Nooit zou ik aan de oevers waar braafheid en gezapigheid wonen, willen aanleggen. Ik ben nu vijfentachtig, ik...

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it’s succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. […] I’m too old...

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His...

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God is as old as time.

I don’t know. I don’t really like old movies. The acting is so, ‘Hey buddy, ol’ pal. Let’s go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding

He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly old and crippled. Turned out the rope didn’t care if you...

For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I’m having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I’d experienced before, then I’d be able...