Quotes on Getting Older

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

For 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.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?