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“Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.”

Young Growing Dying Beats Alternatives Growing Old God Never Blinks Valuable Life Lessons Important Life Lessons

“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.”

Growing Written Taught Lessons Celebrate Life Lesson Growing Old Columns Growing Older

Author:Regina Brett

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”

Moving Fall Next Worry Moving Forward Get Up Growing Old Growing Older Stop Worrying Feeling Sad Crevice

Author:Alex Witchel

“I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.”

Age Cutting Growing Dying My Friends Plague Growing Old

Author:Thom Gunn

“I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.”

Fall Growing Dying Serious Battle Glory Consequence Scared Flying Growing Old Flying High

Author:Ben Harper

“Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.”

Knows Men Looks Doe Seems Pain Faces Women Enemy Growing Trouble Wicked Growing Old Frail Good Woman

Author:Fay Weldon

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

Growing Privilege Complaining Denied Old People Getting Older Growing Old Ageing Humorists Stop Complaining Untimely Death

Author:Mark Twain

“Growing older is like climbing a mountain: the higher you get, the more strength you need, but the further you see.”

Needs Growing Higher Mountain Climbing Growing Old Growing Older Climbing Mountain

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“In some ways, it would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older... Personally, I don't have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that some people do. I've never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.”

People Way Feels Hands Would Be Age Nice Growing Disguise Being Nice Getting Old Getting Older Growing Old Growing Older

Author:Holly Hunter

“The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.”

Firsts Age America Millions Growing Baby Months Old Age Growing Old Boomers Time Flies Baby Boomer

Author:Craig Wilson

“I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.”

Ifs Wonder Growing Conscious Entrepreneur Permanent Penalties Growing Old Growing Older

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.”

Said Body Would Be Easy Growing Hair Ego Tough Your Body Newspapers Forty Unusual Growing Old

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“The spirit should never grow old.”

Should Age Spirit Spirituality Grows Aging Old Age Growing Old Wrinkles Brows 50th Birthday Aging Gracefully Growing Old Gracefully

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“We're just afraid, period. Our fear is free-floating. We're afraid this isn't the right relationship or we're afraid it is. We're afraid they won't like us or we're afraid they will. We're afraid of failure or we're afraid of success. We're afraid of dying young or we're afraid of growing old. We're more afraid of life than we are of death.”

Young Growing Dying Periods Floating Growing Old Afraid Of Failure Afraid Of Life

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.”

People Long Important Life Is Values Growing Concerned Growing Old Duration Donation Value Of Life

Author:Myles Munroe

“I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.”

Ideas Growing Growing Old Wrinkles Hepburn Audrey Growing Old Gracefully

Author:Natalie Imbruglia

“In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.”

Ideas Stories Growing Honesty Growing Old Growing Older

Author:Christian Bale

“When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Years Mind Heart Age Choices Jesus Christ Natural Lord Grace Growing Jesus Christ Granted Heart And Mind Giver Growing Old Lord Jesus Christ Growing Older Years Of Life

Author:Billy Graham

“I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.”

May Age Growing Growing Old Aquarius Acronyms

Book:The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

Source: The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

“But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.”

I Can Change Growing Truth Is Delicate Growing Old Truth Be Told

Author:Robert Bridges

“In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.”

Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop

“In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.”

Inspirational Wise Growing Foolish Growing Old

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

“Life can only be understood backwards.”

“Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”

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Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.”

Trying Stories Artist Growing Fame Glory Growing Old

Author:Daniel Johnston

“As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.”

Giving Years Said Mother Growing One Thing Late Ass Rats Growing Old

Author:Lawrence Block

“Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.”

Age Young Song Growing Dying Old Age Growing Old

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.”

Age Growing Resources All Things Old Age Frustration Growing Old

Book:The House by the Sea: A Journal

Source: The House by the Sea: A Journal

“Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.”

Age Growing Sorrow Series Old Age Decline Growing Old Ledges

Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”

Men Long Age Lying Dies Prayer Willing Draws Abuse Burden Old Age Old Man Growing Old Willing To Die

Author:Euripides

“No one longs to live more than someone growing old.”

Growing Growing Old

Author:Sophocles

“I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.”

Speak Behinds Growing Growing Old My Future

Author:George Wald

“It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.”

Different Difficult Loses Growing Sadness Aging Appreciation Growing Old Ardent Growing Older

Author:Elizabeth Aston

“The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.”

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