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“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”

“In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.”

Knows Way Years Important Enough Moments Kids Young Fun Term Youth Regret Right Now Aging Extras This Day Our Future Your Future Priceless Invest In Yourself

Author:Victoria Moran

“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.”

Want Past Regret Aging Clever Prisoner Erase No Regrets Living In The Past

Author:Mick Jagger

“Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.”

Age Remember Found Growing Regret Aging Bottom Cups Sugar Growing Old Growing Older Don't Regret

Author:James Simpson

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

“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”

Dream Age Young Five Middle Regret Aging Slave Wit Senses Servant Thirty Sixty Only Time Middle Aged Five Senses 30th Birthday 20th Birthday

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Regret Aging Parenting More Time I Regret Kids Growing Up

Author:Tina Turner

“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”

“As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.”

“The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.”

Dream Youth Regret Aging Maturity

Author:Tim Curry

“Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.”

Men Humans Happens Human Beings Destiny Regret Shame Aging Vulnerability Getting Old Getting Older Apprehension

Author:Susan Sontag

“Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?”

Years Age Pain Pleasure Forever Middle Youth Regret Return Ten Aging Shoulders Pretending Middle Ages Pain And Pleasure

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'”

Ifs Years Said Self Serious Regret Fine Aging If I Could Old Self

Author:Queen Latifah

“The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.”

“She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.”

Giving Years Stills Two Certain Next Felt Consciousness Blood Danger Regret Approach Twenties Aging Nine Satisfied Handsome Apprehension

Author:Elisabeth Elliot