#wi

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#humor #old #wisdom #age

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#aged #because #been #being #compassionate

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#autumn #fall #life #seasons #spring

What?” Simon looked alarmed. ”I‘m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn’t a very attractive woman for her age. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jocelyn-fray #simon-lewis #age

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#bring #creativity #defeated #fountain #learn

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. ↗

— Margaret Young

#backwards #happier #live #lives #money

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#being #children #class #color #delightful

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-gracefully #growing-older #predictability #age

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? ↗

— Magenta Periwinkle

#coming-of-age #cutting #cutting-class #first-love #geeks