5 Quotes Tagged: getting-older

She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

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.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

"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).