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Thus the vocation of the baptized person is a simple thing: it is to live from day to day, whatever the day brings, in this extraordinary unity, in this reconciliation with all people and all things, in this knowledge that death has no more power, in this truth of the resurrection. It does not really matter exactly what a Christian does from day to day. What matters is that whatever one does is done in honor of one’s own life, given to one by God and restored to one in Christ, and in honor of the life into which all humans and all things are called.The only thing that really matters to live in Christ instead of death
— William Stringfellow, Instead of Death: New and Expanded Edition
The sticky marital truths: - Friendship lasts longer than romance. - Romance adds icing to the friendship cake. - There are times when neither romance nor friendship keeps a couple strong.
— Paula Whidden, Couple Corners: 52 Faithful Choices for a More Joy-Filled Marriage
This principle is taught in Scripture: "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). In other words, we learn to be loving because we are loved. Grace must come from the outside for us to be able to develop it inside. The opposite side of this truth is that we can't love when we aren't loved. And, taking the thinking further, we can't value or treasure our souls when they haven't been valued or treasured.
— Henry Cloud
I love you’ is validated with action.
— Jonah Books.com, Why Give Money?
In the end it will not matter how we have told our story, but only how God sees it.
— Daniel I. Block, The Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 1-24
Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes.
— Iain H. Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981
God's Word will never pass away, but looking back to the Old Testament and since the time of Christ, with tears we must say that because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the part of God's people, God's Word has many times been allowed to be bent, to conform to the surrounding, passing, changing culture of that moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of God judging the form of the world spirit and the surrounding culture of that moment.
— Francis A. Schaeffer, The Great Evangelical Disaster
I'm not praying for an easy life,but for God to give me strength to overcome life's circumstances
— Amanda Penland
The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.
— Edward J. Young, E. Young Commentary: Daniel (Geneva Series of Commentaries)
His Magnificence - Your Manifestation.I will make of thee a great nation
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Divine Separations
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
— John Owen, Complete Works of John Owen, 16 Volume Set
The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear.
— Jonah Books.com
But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 3:15
— Anonymous
Salvation is the work of God planned in eternity, communicated by the prophets in the Old Testament and fulfilled in Christ; all of which the apostles bear witness to and the angels long to look into these things.
— Jonah Books.com, 1 Peter
in life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar
— Ikechukwu Joseph
A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support.
— Jonah Books.com, I've Tried Everything, Except
We need to touch the fountain of life to draw in living lasting strength.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Who are you?
Whether you believe in the Bible or not
—  you're still living it.
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - until we have the perspective of years.In time, years, dust settles.In memory, ages, God emerges.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.'" "'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there
— Tricia Goyer, A Christmas Gift for Rose
Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with His hand? In the pitch, I feel like I'm falling, sense the bridge giving way, God long absent. In the dark, the bridge and my world shakes, cracking dreams.But maybe this is true reality: It is in the dark that God is passing by. the bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us, I-beam supporting in earthquake.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
God holds us in the untamed moments too.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for four is a fifty cent box of Kraft Dinner rationed in half and your dad tells you every single day that he just doesn't know how there is ever going to be enough?How do you count on life when the hopes don't add up?A morning in late November, joy shimmers.The hopes don't have to add up. The blessings do....count blessings and discover who can be counted on.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the centre of things, he becomes the storm-centre of trouble. The moment you think of serving people, you begin to have a notion that other people owe you something for your pains... You will begin to bargain for reward, to angle for applause.'When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation. So comes a storm of trouble and lightning strikes joy. But when Christ is center, when dishes, laundry, work, is my song of thanks to Him, joy rains. Passionately serving Christ alone makes us the loving servant to all. When the eyes of the heart focus on God, and the hands on always washing the feet of Jesus alone - the bones, they sing joy, and the work returns to it's purest state: eucharisteo. The work becomes worship, a liturgy of thankfulness.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Strategic Spiritual Warfare
Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside.
— Eve Juurik
Don’t ignore or drive away your God sent Davids for you will need them when the life threatening giant Goliaths go on rampage in your life
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Discovering Yourself
Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Strategic Spiritual Warfare
How much of what you accomplish today will bring you, or anyone else, closer to Christ?
— William Branks
Ordinary men with extraordinary powerCommon men with uncommon resultsUsual men with unusual anointingUnschooled mortal men with immortal visionWeak men with mighty deeds-Insight for Fruitful Living
— Ikechukwu Joseph
-Those who never face oppositions always stop at propositions.-Those who never confront obstacles live with delays and postponements
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..)
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
The phrase 'Love one another' is so wise. By loving one another, we invest in each other and in ourselves. Perhaps someday, when we need someone to care for us, it may not come from the person we expect, but from the person we least expect. It may be our sons or daughter-in-laws, our neighbors, friends, cousins, stepchildren, or stepparents whose love for us has assigned them to the honorable, yet dangerous position of caregiver.
— Peggi Speers, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love
In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.
— Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards' Resolutions: And Advice to Young Converts
When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are saying: I have a need. It's not your problem. It's not your responsibility. You don't have to respond, but I'd like something from you. This frees the other person to connect with you freely and without obligation. When we own that our needs are our responsibility we allow others to love us because we have something to offer. Asking is a far cry from demanding. When we demand love, we destroy it.
— Henry Cloud
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings Among the Sheaves
Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.
— Andrew Stephen Damick, Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
— Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
When we find out Who He (Jesus) is, then we find out who we are and it forever settles what we believe.
— Yvette R. Dempster, The Adoption: Whose You Are = Who You Are
It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled times, demands soul, both in the everyday life and in the religion, and can be called totalitarian.
— Seraphim Rose
Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope
—  even if your mind is still wrestling with all the pieces.
When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!
— Raphael Ben Levi, Romance of the Hebrew Calendar
I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.
— Yvette R. Dempster, The Adoption: Whose You Are = Who You Are
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
— Max Lucado, Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God
I have learned that I will not change the world, Jesus will do that. I can however, change the world for one person. I can change the world for fourteen little girls and for four hundred schoolchildren and for a sick and dying grandmother and for a malnourished, neglected, abused five-year old. And if one persons sees the love of Christ in me, it is worth every minute. In fact, it is worth spending my life for.
— Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption
Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.
— Max Lucado, Cast of Characters: Common People in the Hands of an Uncommon God
I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.
— Sarah Mally, Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
— Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You
Many people will never read a Bible, but they will read you.
— Ricky Maye, An Emerging Spirituality
Money holds terrible power when it is loved
— Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart
Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.
— Jim Wallis
Every November on National Adoption Day, courts set aside time to finalize adoptions from foster care that might otherwise be delayed for months, and communities celebrate adoption with retreats, proclamations, and other events. National Adoption Day was started in 2000 and has grown each year. In 2004, courts and community organizations finalized the adoptions of more than 3,400 children from foster care as part of 200 National Adoption Day events in 37 states.
— Natalie Nichols Gillespie, Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families
In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the power of the kingdom of God.
— Richard Foster
In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.
— Stella Oladiran, Winning Formulas
Faith Alive is Faith in PracticeEVERYDAY
— D.A. McBride, The Wind Chimes of Life
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sometimes when jerks become Christians, it's like a bully learning karate. Instead of having Christ transform our hearts and attitudes, we now have a new method with which to beat you up....what was once just 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion' is now 'forcing everyone to agree with my opinion in the name of God.
— Jon Acuff
To effectively combat the devil, you need to pray.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.
— Darlene Zschech
With the weapons that God has made available to you, he expects you to capture and hold captive every thought and idea that comes into your mind, and to examine these against the backdrop of the Word of God. Those thoughts that are in line with God’s will and purpose for your life are to be released and allowed to move freely within your mind. However, those thoughts and ideas that are contrary to the Word of God are to be held perpetually captive and cast out of your mind in the name of Jesus!
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
Faith reminds us that change is always possible.
— Jim Wallis
Just as you cannot stop a bird from flying over your head, in the same way you cannot stop the devil from dropping ideas into your mind. However, in the same way that you can stop a bird from building a nest on your head, you can stop the Enemy’s suggestions from wandering without restriction and taking root in your mind.
— Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ
I am not young enough to know everything.
— Oscar Wilde
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
— Mark Twain
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. 
— Virginia Woolf
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
— Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
— Garrison Keillor, Pontoon
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
— Mark Twain
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
— Charles Bukowski
Old age ain't no place for sissies.
— Bette Davis
I was so much older then
—  I'm younger than that now.From the back pages
With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.
— David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
— Michael Pritchard
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age, On Friendship & On Divination
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
— Karl Lagerfeld
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.
— Hayao Miyazaki
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
— Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Twenty-seven.”His brow puckered, and he blinked over at her. “Twenty-seven hundred years, right?”If he were speaking to Taliyah, yes. “No. Just twenty-seven plain, ordinary years.”“You don’t mean human years, do you?”“No. I mean dog years,” she said dryly, then pressed her lips together. Where was the filter that was usually poised over her mouth? Strider didn’t seem to mind, though. Rather, he seemed stupefied. Would Sabin have had the same reaction were he awake? “What’s so hard to believe about my age?” As the question echoed between them, a thought occurred to her and she blanched. “Do I look ancient?”“No, no. Of course not. But you’re immortal. Powerful.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Whisper
I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.
— Craig Ferguson
What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
— Jessica Simpson
Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
— Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you’re not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
…. by the time they have reached the middle of their life’s journey, few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change anymore. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everything’s coming about as it has. It might just have well as turned out differently. The events of people’s lives have, after all, only to the last degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards them
— Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
— George Sand
A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.
— M.C. Beaton
I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
— Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
I am older than your age and younger than your body.
— Santosh Kalwar
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.
— Craig Ferguson
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
— Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden & Civil Disobedience
The good thing about being old is not being young.
— Stephen Richards
Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.
— Billie Burke
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.
— Rae Lori
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man perceives that he is no longer able to do certain things, that what looks he may have had are deserting him, that he has a ponderous great belly, and that however much he may yet burn he is no longer attractive to women; and he rebels. Fortitude, resignation and philosophy are of more value than any pills, red, white or blue.
— Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove
114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.
— Craig Ferguson
You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
— Hayley Linfield
I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.
— Louis L'Amour, The Lonesome Gods
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What can ever equal the memory of being young together?
— Michael Stein, In the Age of Love
A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.
— Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,
— José Saramago, Caim
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.
— Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
— Lillian Gish
Young age can be experience just once, but immaturity never leaves even we grown up??
— bheng927
No, time has silverted the dark sheen of her hair, and thickened her body, and lined the corners of her eyes and her lips.He saw in them the hints of the smile he loved, and knew, to be fair, that time had been no kinder to him. Or perhaps, it had been just as kind; for she did not look the part of a young girl, and she was not: she was stronger, wiser, and more just than the fear of youth allowed; she gave him the shelter that he needed, on the rare occasions that that need drove him. She trusted him, always; she looked up to him, still; he strove, in every way, to continue to live up to her expectation. She was the one person in his life he did not wish to disappoint. 
— Michelle Sagara West, The Broken Crown
I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...
— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
— Nicole Kidman
You're very old, aren't you?""Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
— Philippa Pearce, A Finder's Magic
I realize thirty is just a number, that you're only as old as you feel and all that. I also realize that in the grand scheme of things, thirty is still young. But it's not that young.
— Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed
My age makes him nervous and shamey, cause his eyes keep heading southwards and then back up, guilty. I can tell I can make his eyes swirl and that's just about all I want to do.
— Andrea Portes, Hick
Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.
— Lara Adrian, Deeper Than Midnight
William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
— Marc Norman, Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay
When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
— Stephen Richards
Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.
— Don DeLillo
He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.
— J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
— Edward Young, Night Thoughts: Or, The Complaint And The Consolation
The faded glittering in his eyes is like a falling star on a dull autumn's day.
— Anna Paszkiewicz
... forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on.
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.
— James Lee Burke, Crusader's Cross
We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
— Phyllis Theroux
I don't mind getting older
—  it's a privilege denied to so many!
My dear Mrs. Ali, I would hardly refer to you as old," he said. "You are in what I would call the very prime flowering of mature womanhood." It was a little grandiose but he hoped to surprise a blush. Instead she laughed out loud at him. "I have never heard anyone try to trowel such a thick layer of flattery on the wrinkles and fat deposits of advanced middle age, Major," she said. "I am fifty-eight years old and I think I have slipped beyond flowering. I can only hope now to dry out into one of those everlasting bouquets.
— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.
— Vivian Vande Velde, Remembering Raquel
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
— Maurice Chevalier
I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
— Julius Lester, The Autobiography of God
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
— Gloria Pitzer
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.He was famous in proverb and famous in rhymeA long while before Queen Victoria's accession.Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wivesAnd more – I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;And his numerous progeny prospers and thrivesAnd the village is proud of him in his decline.At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy,When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all … Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! … Ho! hi!Oh, my eye!My mind may be wandering, but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"Old Deuteronomy sits in the street,He sits in the High Street on market day;The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat,But the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away.The cars and the lorries run over the kerb,And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED —So that nothing untoward may chance to disturbDeuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposedOr when he's engaged in domestic economy:And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well of all …Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …Ho! hi!Oh, my eye!My sight's unreliable, but I can guessThat the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy!
— T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.
— Judith Martin, Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
I'm too old to figure out the rights and wrongs of everything.
— Barbara Else, The Travelling Restaurant: Jasper's voyage in three parts
You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.
— Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received. [p. 88]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life
It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person. [p. 62]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities. [p. 38]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven't moved may begin to need a fire. [p. 38]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others [p. 8]
— Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom
As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
— Edward Abbey
now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it-- it went on increasing in his experience.
— Virginia Woolf
Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again
— Kira Jeffries
She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.
— R.J.  Lawrence, The Xactilias Project
At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next," so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.
— Unknown Author
How many years went by unnoticed, unembraced?
— Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Our toys were sixteen or seventeen; only the very eldest were in their early twenties, because, apparently, I didn't envision anything of particular interest in life beyond twenty-five. And now I am a greater age than any of the toys were allowed to reach, older than I even cared to imagine as a child.
— Sara Baume, A Line Made by Walking
Life was less of a mystery for every digit that age handed over to him. Time, however, became more cryptic and dealt in destructive consequences.
— Gayendra Abeywardane, Crocodile Chamber
Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
For many women, by the time they realize how beautiful they were, it is too late.
— Robert  Black
At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that "this too, shall pass.
— Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone
This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health.
— Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture
When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.
— Pico Iyer
...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she watched her son's happiness in sad silence, as a ruined man looks through the windows at people dining in his old house.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.
— C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.
— George Orwell, A Nice Cup Of Tea
Whether you are aged or weak, you can still serve the Lord
— Sunday Adelaja
We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.
— Brit Bennett, The Mothers
Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.
— Neil A. Hogan
When older people ask me, “How have you been so successful after age 65?” I tell them, “Anyone who’s reached 65 years of age has had a world of experience behind him. He’s had his ups and downs and all the trials and tribulations of life. He certainly ought to be able to gather something out of that, something he can put together at the end of his 65 years so he can get a new start.” The way I see it, a man’s life is written by the way he lives it. It’s using any talent God has given him, even if his talent is cooking food or running a good motel.You can reach higher, think bigger, grow stronger and live deeper in this country of ours than anywhere else on Earth. The rules here give everybody a chance to win. If my story is different, it’s because my life really began at age 65 when most folks have already called it a day.I’d been modestly successful before I hit 65. After that I made millions. When they’re about 60 or 65, a lot of people feel that life is all over for them. Too many of them just sit and wait until they die or they become a burden to other people. The truth is they can make a brand new life for themselves if they just don’t give up and hunker down. I want to tell people, “You’re only as old as you feel or as you think, and no matter what your age there’s plenty of work to be done.” I don’t want to sound like I’m clearing my throat and giving advice about how a man can be successful. I’m not all puffed up. My main trade secret is I’m not afraid of hard, back-cracking work. After all, I was raised on a farm where hard work is the way of life.
— Harland Sanders, The Autobiography of the Original Celebrity Chef
Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here.
— Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run
It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.
— Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh
We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.
— Gore Vidal, Burr
While many find the new clothes of the emperor magnificent, some dare to say out loud, he is simply naked. If the clear sighted are constrained by the credulous and when the “followers” are browbeating the "knowers", the cat is among the pigeons and the age of obscuration is under way. Obviously "something wicked this way comes…" ("His master's voice" )
— Erik Pevernagie
I'm old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground.
— Chris Geiger
They say you’re only as old as you feel but try telling that to a ninety-year-old on their deathbed, just wishing he could do all the bloody things he wants to do.
— Karina Halle, Veiled
The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.
— Jane Austen, Emma
No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.
— Nolan Liebert, An Alphabet of Embers
He wasn't so elderly after all, I saw: probably just a few years older than I. And yet I was never able (and am still not) to think of myself as old. I talked as if I knew I was; I bemoaned my age. But it was only for comedy, or to make other people feel young.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Age is a cruel monster and time is no friend
— Oluseyi Akinbami
Perhaps, as with advancing age, the physical life becomes less important and yet, paradoxically, more precious, this green revolution against the temporary death of winter is a reminder that the earth, like our own lives, is a gift.
— Willem Lange, Tales from the Edge of the Woods
traditions with class and worth, never go out of style....whether you live here or or over thereremember and always instill to that next generationotherwise it is only to be a memory that can only fade and be forgotten
— levi paul taylor
Anyway, it's like when Kate Hudson was hooking up with that Jonas brother. It was kind of weird at first and then we all got used to it and nobody gave it a second thought. If anything, people applauded her because she's not afraid to go after what she wants. And she really wanted that cute little Jonas brother.
— Winter Renshaw, Reckless
This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I remember the long confused emotion which was my life, and that I judge it, as it is said that God will judge me, and with no less impertinence. To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets.
— Samuel Beckett, Molloy
When I am old and addled I will make coronets like Cad, that have nothing to do with history, but represent the whimsy and cobwebs in my brain.
— Sherri Baldy
Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.Harry: We're the same age, Draco.Draco: I wear it better.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.
— Richard Sapir, The Far Arena
Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.
— Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior.
— Tanya Masse, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!
You say that you don’t care about age and that you’re ready to push the wheelchair and hose down my bum, but how can you be sure?
— Edmund White, Our Young Man
What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2... But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich!
— Deyth Banger
He would do anything to avoid ageing and death...anything.
— Mark  Benjamin, A Change Of Heart
Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.
— Yasmine El Rashidi
Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.
— Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.
— Brian  Doyle, Chicago
From 1 to 18 is the holly worst parts of your life, you are caged and you can't do anything times passes events happen different today your granpa is alive, but tomorrow probably he will die or the next month or later-later. But what can it be done for that??
— Deyth Banger
If you keep an active life, you stay young.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.
— Monica Wood
Perhaps it wasn't age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.
— Anna Jarzab, Tether
I am positive of only a few things in life, and one is that if you want to have a decent middle and old age, you have to get exercise almost every day.
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
— James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues
Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.
— Dara Horn
Age is glory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Embrace the glory of age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita