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At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look;
At 45 they are caves in which we hide. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. -- Saki
It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. -- Elizabeth Aston
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. -- Anouk Aimee
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
-- Jane E. Brody
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. -- Ellen Glasgow
As we grow old ... the beauty steals inward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. -- Max Frisch
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. -- Bonnie Prudden
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. -- John F. Kennedy
... though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
-- II Corinthians 4:16-17
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -- Madeleine L'Engle
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
-- Lynn Hall
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old -- whatever 'the old' means for you. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nostalgia is a seductive liar. -- George W. Ball
As I grow older, war looks more and more horrible to me. -- Bill Purdin
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. -- Groucho Marx
The heart that loves is always young.-- Anonymous
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. -- Zachary Scott
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years. -- Seneca
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. -- Arthur Wing Pinero
Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled stars, invisible by day.
-- Longfellow
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -- Ancient Cherokee Saying

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