100 Quotes About Age

Life moves forward, and that’s only natural. Times change, people grow, and the world gets bigger. But you’ve got to learn to move with it. A couple of decades doesn’t mean much when you think about it in the grand scheme of things Read more

But in your everyday life, it can feel like an eternity. So when you’re feeling time drag on, take a moment to reflect on the wisdom of these age quotes.

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No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 2313) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 2414) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France 17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 2818) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President . Pablo
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When You Are Old"WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. W.b. Yeats
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I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I know you are unable to imagine this. Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved. . Meg Rosoff
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless. Ernest Hemingway
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too...
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. Arthur Golden
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. George Orwell
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making...
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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. Martin Amis
It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life...
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It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone. Andy Rooney
I think people would live a bit longer if they...
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I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things. Karl Pilkington
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in...
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except...
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung Pearl S. Buck
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she...
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. Ellen DeGeneres
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar...
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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H.l. Mencken
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Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. Charles M. Schulz
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only...
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. George Burns
Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest,...
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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business. Julian Barnes
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Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy years later, you fall down again. Herb Gardner
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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve? Julian Barnes
One should never trust a woman who tells one her...
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. Oscar Wilde
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THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell you And you will turn back The hands of time. Smile, I tell you And you will reflect The face of the divine. Sing, I tell you And all the angels will sing with you! Cry, I tell you And the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterday To guide you through the fears of tomorrow. Suzy Kassem
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. Elisabeth Elliot
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old...
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. Ernest Hemingway
I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as...
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I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters. Louise Penny
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. Oscar Wilde
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child.. .. that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. Unknown
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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young. Isaac Asimov
For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been...
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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. Erich Maria Remarque
Grown people know that they do not always know the...
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Zora Neale Hurston
People talk to old people like they're children.' Oh you're...
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People talk to old people like they're children.' Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. Craig Ferguson
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The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things. Elizabeth Goudge
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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. Christopher Hitchens
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He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. Dejan Stojanovic
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A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. Jayleigh Cape
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Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things. Jodi Picoult
There was a considerable difference between the ages of my...
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There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You may never live long enough to discover who you...
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You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not. James Rozoff
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends...
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The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back. Fredrik Backman
Age is neither a limit nor an exception to realize...
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Age is neither a limit nor an exception to realize your true potential or the way you want to live your life Kashaf Shaikh (Cofounder
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. Unknown
If you're not getting happier as you get older, then...
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If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up Ani DiFranco
There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and...
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There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so. James Rozoff
LIFE - Death's Very Emissary
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LIFE - Death's Very Emissary Abhysheq Shukla
Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because...
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Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful. Abhysheq Shukla
We do not recognize that we are addicted to some...
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We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking... Abhysheq Shukla
We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and...
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We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment. Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion. Abhysheq Shukla
Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and...
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Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds. Your Which is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it. Abhysheq Shukla
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We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions. The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep. It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention. Abhysheq Shukla
Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the...
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Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed. Abhysheq Shukla
Love wins when reflections win over reflexes.
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Love wins when reflections win over reflexes. Abhysheq Shukla
In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning,...
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In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Abhysheq Shukla
Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others,...
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Every person has his secret; in reverie, unbeknown to others, he finds peace, freedom, sorrow and love. Abhysheq Shukla
Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old...
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Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me Carolyn Turgeon
Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no...
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Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. Candace Bushnell
When you live forever and don't age, it gives you...
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When you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope Laurell K. Hamilton
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must...
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. Herbert Hoover
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm...
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I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more... Maurice Sendak
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most...
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Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. David Gemmell
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When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. And when Death calls, how many of us would trade all those pages, all that squandered lifetime-worth of painfully achieved scratches and squiggles, for just one more day, one more fully lived and experienced day? And what price would we writers pay for that one extra day spent with those we ignored while we were locked away scratching and squiggling in our arrogant years of solipsistic isolation? Would we trade all those pages for a single hour? Or all of our books for one real minute? . Dan Simmons
Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I...
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Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die. Kate Millett
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays...
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old. George Orwell
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We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going. Sheri S. Tepper
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The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the Berkeley sky cloudless, a smell of jasmine in the air, a car driving by with its window rolled down, trailing a sweet ache of the Allman Brothers' "Melissa, " it struck me that in order to have reached only the midpoint of my life I will need to live to be 92. That's pretty old. If you live to be ninety-two, you've done well for yourself. I'd like to be optimistic, and I try to take care of my health, but none of my grandparents even made it past 76, three killed by cancer, one by Parkinson's disease. If I live no longer than any of them did, I have at most thirty years left, which puts me around sixty percent of the way through my time. I am comfortable with the idea of mortality, or at least I always have been, up until now. I never felt the need to believe in heaven or an afterlife. It has been decades since I stopped believing-a belief that was never more than fitful and self-serving to begin with-in the possibility of reincarnation of the soul. I'm not totally certain where I stand on the whole "soul" question. Though I certainly feel as if I possess one, I'm inclined to disbelieve in its existence. I can live with that contradiction, as with the knowledge that my time is finite, and growing shorter by the day. It's just that lately, for the first time, that shortening has become perceptible. I can feel each tiny skyward lurch of the balloon as another bag of sand goes over the side of my basket. . Michael Chabon
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age...
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Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. Julian Barnes
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a...
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Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age. Madeleine LEngle
We envy people who are extremely old because we wish...
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We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and...
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Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within. Debasish Mridha
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Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Tennyson
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew Robert Browning
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Ld heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing on their beds, Rhymed out in love’s despair To flatter beauty’s ignorant ear. They’ll cough in the ink to the world’s end; Wear out the carpet with their shoes Earning respect; have no strange friend; If they have sinned nobody knows. Lord, what would they say Should their Catullus walk that way? . W.b. Yeats
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! Unknown
I don't see, ' I said, 'how people stand being...
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I don't see, ' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion. Sylvia Plath
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It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, " said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to a man."" And memory."" Yes, memory. Without that, time would be unarmed against us. John Steinbeck
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The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I’ve known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do. Sue Hubbell
Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been...
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Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful. Eraldo Banovac
Result of HARDWORK Is Neither Friends Nor Enemy, To the...
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Result of HARDWORK Is Neither Friends Nor Enemy, To the AGE Of the ACHIEVER! Sujit Lalwani
People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special....
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People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that’s the job of vision. Israelmore Ayivor
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to...
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly. Israelmore Ayivor
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to...
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One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream. Israelmore Ayivor
Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to...
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Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us. Abhysheq Shukla
In the end all the puzzles of your life will...
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In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved , until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason. Abhysheq Shukla
Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up...
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Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage. Abhysheq Shukla
Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we...
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Every interaction is an opportunity to learn, Only if we are interested in improving rather than proving. Abhysheq Shukla
Life is a university, you will keep learning new things...
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Life is a university, you will keep learning new things all the time. The tombstone will be your degree. Make sure it's worth a fortune for those who admire you. Abhysheq Shukla
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with...
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, So ... Love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't. Life is 10% what you make it 90% how you take it. Abhysheq Shukla
Life is about the moments you create, that you can...
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Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep it with you FOREVER. After everything is over, That is what we have or what we are left with. Abhysheq Shukla
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A person with good heart is always happy. However its a myth because most of the time his heart is full of wounds as it except only good thing from others still he love the people who treat it right & pray for the ones who don't Abhysheq Shukla
Life is about the moments you create, that you can...
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Life is about the moments you create, that you can keep with you forever. After everything is over, That is what we have or what we are left with. Abhysheq Shukla
Love is what makes two people sit in the middle...
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Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. Love means nothing in tennis, But it's everything in life Abhysheq Shukla
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If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The question is , Have we given our remote to others for the way we feel? Live your life in your way! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Abhysheq Shukla
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For a happy life, it's best we should ignore &overlook things, people, incidents, affairs & matters. It is not necessary that we show a reaction to everything. Step back & ask yourself if the matter is really worth responding to. Abhysheq Shukla
If we try to see something positive in everything we...
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If we try to see something positive in everything we do, life won't necessarily become easier but it becomes more valuable. Abhysheq Shukla
A lot of pain that we are dealing with are...
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A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS. Abhysheq Shukla
The most important subject in the curriculum in the future...
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The most important subject in the curriculum in the future years will be how to love ourselves and be content. Abhysheq Shukla
Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who...
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Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society. Abhysheq Shukla
Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art...
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Tenderhearted people are silent sufferers they just learn the art to fly with broken wings. Abhysheq Shukla
There's a story behind every
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There's a story behind every "I don't believe in love"" Period Abhysheq Shukla
Its not your fault for not being there. Its my...
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Its not your fault for not being there. Its my fault for thinking you would be Abhysheq Shukla
We live in a society where every business has a...
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We live in a society where every business has a huge scope. Even if you open a shop selling snakes people will buy it. Thinking they will direct them to their neighbors house. Abhysheq Shukla
Create your own path. Don't blindly follow the massess... because...
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Create your own path. Don't blindly follow the massess... because most of the time the "M" is silent. Abhysheq Shukla
Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture...
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Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely...... Abhysheq Shukla