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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
-Chinese Proverb
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
-English Proverb
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Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, So I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be something you see it could be a scent - perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches the autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground.
Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the stuff of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for granted. We must make it important to notice them, for at any time...it can all be taken away.
The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester.
Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook. Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double-dip ice cream cone.
For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn't do. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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-Anon.
from a story The Teacher (A Powerful Lesson)
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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
-Proverb
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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
-Proverb
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
-Proverb
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An old man loved is winter with flowers.
-Proverb
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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.
-Proverb
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Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
-Franklin Pierce Adams
Nods and Becks, "New England Primer", 1944
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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
-Joseph Addison
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
-Joseph Addison
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-Anouk Aimee
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and don't care much for girls' things. People think I'm wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good. . . . Now I'm going to work really, for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort, not a care and sorrow to my dear mother.
-Louisa May Alcott
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent
-Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
-Muhammad Ali
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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.
-Hervey Allen
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
-Elizabeth Arden
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One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
-Thomas Arnold
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
-Thomas Arnold
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-Fred Astaire
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
-Nancy Astor
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
-Nancy Astor
In Hammer and Tongues, by Brown and O'Connor, 1986
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Books about Age
