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“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

Ifs Knows Life Two Dies Grows Growth Learning Positive Negative Twenties Aging Ignorant Decay Better Life Twenty Two

Author:Mitch Albom

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Young Time Learning Youth Ready Tasks Aging Statements Old Age Greek Amazed Elders Eighty Cato

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”

“How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?”

Helping Life Is Dies Learning Students Commitment Tragedy Aging Conviction Undefined

Author:Vachel Lindsay

“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”

Today Wish Learning Intellectual Twenties Aging Intelligence

Author:Bill Ayers

“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”

Thinking Men Learning Intellectual Aging Intelligence Thinking Man

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.”

Looks Mean Remember Learning Painting One Day Aging Remember When Getting Old Listening To Music

Author:Susan Sontag

“So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.”

Purpose Watches Learning Aging Selfish Resolve Distrust Shrinks Lofty Sneer

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.”

Trying Matter Spiritual Learning Training Harder Transformation Aging Spiritual Transformation

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.”

Art Important Force Process Understanding Existence Learning Art Is Aging

Author:Amiri Baraka

“We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.”

Knows Children Doe Grows Differences Growing Up Learning Adults Aging Former Latter

Author:W. H. Auden

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”

Wish Easy Mistake Learning Expectations Aging

Book:A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory

Source: A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory

“I grow old, ever learning many things.”

Grows Learning Aging

Author:Solon

“With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.”

Learning Personality Aging Rivalry

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Your world is as big as you make it.”

World Bigs Learning Aging

Author:Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child”

Children Artist Fighting Grows Learning Adults Relation Aging Disillusionment

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“Whiners usually play alone.”

Play Learning Teaching Personality Aging Whiners

Author:Cynthia Lewis

“You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over.”

Fall Learning Aging Bike Peddling

Author:Cynthia Lewis

“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”

Wells Play School Learning Personality Aging School Plays

Author:Cynthia Lewis