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“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

“Older is better with wine and men”
― Shelly Crane, Defiance

“Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.
It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“Sometimes, I think, that in the mornings when you first wake up, every thing that happened in the previous day rushes through our mind so fast, we, A: Don't realize it. B: Become more tired, die a little inside, and become groggy. Since everyday, we die a little inside we age closer and closer to death. We constantly grow older, and we're constantly dying. Therefore, don't wake me up early, or I'll take it that you wanted to kill me.”
― Melanie Kay Taylor

“-just on the verge of
becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd
reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom
of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, I'll Take You There

“The average person is in the habit of saying, “The older I get;”�� and he thereby calls the attention of his mind to the idea that he is getting older. In brief, he compels his mind to believe that he is getting older and older, and thereby directs the mind to produce more and more age. The true expression in this connection is, “The longer I live.�� This expression calls the mind’s attention to the length of life, which will, in turn, tend to increase the power of that process in you that can prolong life. When people reach the age of sixty or seventy, they usually speak of “the rest of my days,�� thus implying the idea that there are only a few more days remaining. The mind is thereby directed to finish life in a short period of time, and accordingly, all the forces of the mind will proceed to work for the speedy termination of personal existence. The correct expression is “from now on,�� as, that leads thought into the future indefinitely without impressing the mind with any end whatever.”
― Christian D. Larson

“It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost "friends" because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Become the person your younger self would want to look up to”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”
― John Fowles, Daniel Martin

“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“You'll have lots of questions to answer as you get older. Who you are. Who you want to be. What you think about things. Like politics. And romances. And whether you'll be able to speak out or keep your mouth shut. It's always a challenge to work out the best way to live your life, and as much as everyone tells you what to do, ultimately how you do things is up to you.”
― Kate Jacobs

“What would it be like when I was fifty, sixty, older? I’d be no more than a jumble of organs in slow decomposition.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

“He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.”
― Steven Herrick, Cold Skin

“Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“As you get older you'll understand that it's not about what you look like or what you own, it's all about the person you've become.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood��! ~James A. Murphy”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Time makes you bolder, children get older, and I'm getting older too.”
― Lyza Matociños

“The older they became the less time they spent together, and the less time they spent together the less dissatisfaction they felt toward each other.”
― Richard House, The Kills

“The nonappearance of cheerfulness in the lives of good people is finite.”
― Darmie Orem