"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on reverie   

"He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on self-respect
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"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

Hope, Bob on age and aging   

"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

Hershfield, Harry on age and aging
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"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing on age and aging
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"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

Engel, Sigmund Z. on age and aging
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."

Dickens, Charles on age and aging
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"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on age and aging
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap."

Hope, Bob on age and aging   

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest on age and aging
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"Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever."

Moody, Dwight L. on age and aging   

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

Schulz, Charles M. on age and aging
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"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."

Richter, Jean Paul on age and aging   

"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."

Richter, Jean Paul on age and aging   

"It takes a long time to become young."

Picasso, Pablo on age and aging   

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on juries
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"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on life
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"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on apologies
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on argument
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"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on growth
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"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on gold
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"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on angels
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"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on education
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on dullness   

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

Mother Teresa on sympathy
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"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on neighbors
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"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on problems
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"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on speakers and speaking   

"Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on courage
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on courage
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"Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on contentment