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"You'll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in." ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they're cramming for their final exam." ― George Carlin
"There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get." ― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup
"So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty." ― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
"The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more." ― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts." ― Núria Añó
"His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72)." ― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
"Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away." ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned." ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
"When you get to a certain age you find that other people's opinions don't really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life." ― Noel Gallagher
"One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking." ― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series: Books 4-6
"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express." ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
"All of a sudden you may realise that you are no longer young! And at that moment, you must also realise that by refusing getting old you can catch a chance to continue to be young!" ― Mehmet Murat ildan
"Besides,' continued Julian, 'you can slam down a phone like that. You can't slam down a mobile. Imagine, a whole generation who'll never know the joy of slamming down a phone." ― Clare Pooley, The Authenticity Project
"It was in the realm of his humor, and Carney had doubtless laughed. You get older and the old jokes grow less funny." ― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
"My current age is, 'if I don't write it down within three seconds, I'll forget it." ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
"The older I get, the less surprised I think I'd be if a random body part just fell off one day." ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
"They say you're only as old as you feel. I think I may be an exhumed mummy or something." ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
"Valjda svi mi kako starimo postajemo karikature sebe samih, izgledom, ponašanjem, manje ili više smešne karikature. Ali valjda ne izgubimo dušu. Ne ono osnovno, iznutra, što nas čini nama." ― Mirjana Đurđević, Parking svetog Savatija
"Az arcokon nyomot hagy az idő, de a szem ugyanaz az ablak marad, mint egykor volt." ― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
"If your parents are getting old and you don't know how to bring up the topic of what to do with all the stuff, I would suggest you pay them a visit, sit down, and ask some of the following questions in a gentle way:
"You have many nice things, have you thought about what you want to do with it all later on?" "Do you enjoy having all this stuff?" "Could life be easier and less tiring if we got rid of some of this stuff that you have collected over the years?" "Is there anything we can do together in a slow way so that there won't be too many things to handle later?" ― Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
"Twenty years is a while. They were both older, fatter, and sadder--"which is the general trajectory"--and that was a nice couple of days." ― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle
"Past fifty, we learn with surprise and a sense of suicidal absolution that what we intended and failed could never have happened— and must be done better." ― Robert Lowell
"Getting older happens suddenly. It's like swimming out to sea and realising that the shore you're making for isn't the shore where you started out." ― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time
"On a scale of one to eight Youth is middle C" ― Nanette L. Avery
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