All Quotes By Tag: Age
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
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“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
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“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”
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“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
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“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
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“George Macdonald said, ‘If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands’, but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”
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“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
“How old would you be if you did not know your exact age?”
“Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?”
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“Nat: Maybe you broke something.Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down!Nat: Ah, it’s nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That’s the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again.”
“Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don’t you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life’s business.”
“Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…- Wang Lung”
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“Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.”
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“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.”
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