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“Men are like wine-some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”
“I envy you, your youth. Every woman is still a dream, a thing that cant exist. Even when you touch her, a creature too beautiful to be real or to cause real pain. Its different for old men. We have...”
“though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding”
“Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings identities are self-generating and people constantly revise and recreate the story of their being. Coming-into-being, not being, is ...”
“Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.”
“I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middl...”
“For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger and full of life...”
“No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude ...”
“Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a womans ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a womans usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in...”
“Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.”
“A boy from Brooklyn used to cruise on summer nights.As soon as hed hit sixty hed hold his hand out the window,cupping it around the wind. Hed been assuredthis is exactly how a womans breast feels w...”
“Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!”
“In terms of days and moments lived, youll 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...”
“At his age, it can be overwhelming and painful to harbor a thought accompanied by too much nostalgia. Not that he wanted to. Mabel, in her final years, had stopped listening to music. The songs of ...”
“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you cant remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday ...”
“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and soften...”
“I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying lifes dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.”
“There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.”
“Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.”
“In her 20s, a womans breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40s, they halve it.”
