growing-older

The older you grow, the younger your fears grow!

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

Don__ grow older__row wiser.

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

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be is so far away in the past that we only remember her, longingly, as if she were a beloved stranger.

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn__. (356)

Just because you__e grown up and then some doesn__ mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

It__ not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it__ homophobia. It__ not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; it__ racism. It__ not having vaginas that makes life harder for women, it__ sexism. And it__ ageism, far more than the passage of time, that makes growing older harder for all of us.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.