The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

A collection of sad quotes and sayings.
The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that’s good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should see through it.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

The key to successful aging is…
to pay as little attention to it as possible.

By the time beauty has gone, hopefully, wisdom comes to tell you that it doesn’t matter.

The spiritual eyesight improves…
as the physical eyesight declines.

Age only matters when one is aging.
Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

Live your life and forget your age.

Many people can’t stand the thought of aging, but it’s the crystallized thought patterns and inflexible mind-sets that age people before their time. You can break through and challenge your crystallized patterns and mind-sets. That is what evolution and the expansion of love are really about.

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt.
As young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.
As young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it’s lamps with it.

How beautiful can time with goodness, make and old man look.

We don’t have to wait until we are old to gather the riches…
We can gather them every day of our lives.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
