All children are artists. The problem is how to remain artists once they
grow up.
- Pablo Picasso
To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Berson
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
- M. Scott Peck quotes (American psychiatrist, 1936-2005)
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like
ourselves,
- May Lamberton Becker
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the
harder it is to bounce back.
- Winston Groom (American Novelist)
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel
Paige
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of
your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor
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A grownup is a child with layers on.
- Woody Harrelson
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about
what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
A grownup is a child with layers on.
- Woody Harrelson quotes (American Actor, b.1961)
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an
adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he
forgives himself, he becomes wise.
- Alden Nowlan quotes
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your
self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as
your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~Victor Hugo
Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they
merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be
sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are,
and if it is good, it is better than your youth. ~Marya Mannes, More in
Anger, 1958
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
~ Betty Friedan
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life.
"Why," I answered without a thought, "now." ~David Grayson
“…aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time
of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can—if the readiness and
resolve are there—be the real harvest of our lives. - Sherwin Nuland,
The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't
changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't
change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ~Doris
Lessing
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Astrid Alauda
The years teach much which the days never knew. ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was
wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am
stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed
that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? ~Jules Feiffer
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old
by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ~Samuel Ullman
Rabbi Ben Ezra, by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"
So, take and use Thy work:
Amend what flaws may lurk,
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same!
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