Aging

"It is the runner in me who will age gracefully. It is the runner in me who understands that the beauty of my body is in the things it can do, not the way it looks doing them. The runner ...

"Ancient peoples invented rites of passage in part to break the spell of childhood and move the initiate from the mother's lap to the lap of the world. To this day, a person must dismantle the spell of childhood or ...

"Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t ...

"How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age." - Margaret Atwood ...

"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ...

"Nostalgia is heroin for old people." - Dara O'Briain ...

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."          - John A. Wheeler ...

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

"Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr ...

“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.” - Anne Sophie Swetchine ...