Quotes on Wise Birthday

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

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?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

We are always the same age inside.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

May you live all the days of your life.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.