75 Quotes About Growing-older

Finding Your Buried TreasureA child's dream,To find a cache of gold coinsBuried in the basementOf your family's home.An old man's dream,To find the child who believed in buried treasure.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

We keep making decisions, every day, half without thinking, half against our will. If we don't fight back, if we allow ourselves to change, to be changed, then once it's done we have to do other things, and on and on until the person we wanted to be is so far away in the past that we only remember her, longingly, as if she were a beloved stranger.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

That’s the trouble with you young people.” Saying young as though it was a bad thing.“You’re in too darn much of a hurry to notice.”“Notice what, exactly?”“The difference,” she’d replied slowly, as if I were particularly stupid, “between what people want you to see, and what’s real.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.