#aging

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. (418) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#being #doing #fun #love #regret

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. ↗

— Doris Day

#middle-age #age

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254 ↗

— Alice Sebold

#age

The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime. ↗

— Pink Floyd

#aging #memories #age

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#friends #life #age

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#life #suicide #age

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#learning #life #self #self-knowledge #age

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it. ↗

— May Sarton

#age

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aging #color #growth #old-age #peach

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me. ↗