One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)
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Eve Ensler
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
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Yoko Ono
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
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Lynsay Sands
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also...
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Mitch Albom
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell...
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Douglas Coupland
More Quotes By Bill Vaughan
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Money won't buy happiness but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
