#aging

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beauty #faces #feature #older #age

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#frailty #old-age #time #age

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#challenge #continues #dangerous #difficult #i

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#impatience #time #wisdom #age

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#aging #life #time #age

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love #lust #age

Everyday is one less day. ↗

— Tom Ford

#life #time #age

I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl looking into the mirror to count freckles reaches out toward herself and that reflection has turned into that of a woman on her wedding day, righting her veil. And how, when that bride blinks, she reopens her eyes to see a frazzled young mother trying to get lipstick on straight for the parent/teacher conference that starts in three minutes. And how after that young woman bends down to retrieve the wild-haired doll her daughter has left on the bathroom floor, she rises up to a forty-seven-year-old, looking into the mirror to count age spots. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#daughters #mothers #age

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#dead #death #life #living #age

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you. ↗

— Burton Cummings

#album #because #been #bootleg #bother