Growing Older Quotes - Page 3

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The older I get, the more I feel.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Natural Talent, Getting Older

  "Trauma Units" by Stephen Burt, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2002.

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• Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Real, Age

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• Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Retirement, Fun, Age

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Age, Important

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• The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Age, Growing

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Growing, Wiser

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• I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mistake, Growing, Enjoy

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Growing, Aging, Pleasure

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• Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

  John Dos Passos

  Change, Break Up, Being Alone

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.443, Transaction Publishers

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• the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

  Gladys Taber

  Real, Moving, Steps

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Age, Growing

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• I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Entrepreneur, Growing, Wonder

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• The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

  Kate Mosse

  Loss, Grieving, Echoes

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

  Regina Brett

  Life Lesson, Growing, Lessons

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• Trans kids are living in the future in a way. When I was growing up, "transgender" wasn't even a word. It wasn't used. Just the naming of something that's invisible, or was thought of as shameful or different - giving it a name that's not a slur is powerful. It's still a little hard to imagine what it might look like growing older as a trans man, but I think that's going to change for the next generation. For trans kids growing up, that visual bridge towards their future selves is starting to develop in conjunction with this trans media wave we're in.

  Rhys Ernst

  Growing Up, Powerful, Kids

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.

  Cat Power

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.

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• Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

  Susan Sontag

  Imagination, Growing, Disease

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• O Day after day we can't help growing older.
  Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
  Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
  Nor pity the flowers fallen.

  Wang Wei

  Spring, Flower, June

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• It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Use, Growing, Way

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.405, Delphi Classics

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• There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Age, Relief, Realization

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”

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• Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Growing, Planets

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.

  Christiane Northrup

  Drama, Mean, Opportunity

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