Aging

"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 ...

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

"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 ...

"Most people don't grow up. Most people age." - Maya Angelou ...

"You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, ...

"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 ...

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” - Fran Lebowitz ...

"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky ...

“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mine." - Timothy Leary ...

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” - Samuel Ullman ...