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Adventures are important things in our life, to forget about our aging.

A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]

After staring at the ceiling for more than an hour, I was finally asleep, but I wasn’t in my dream. I was walking and walking beside a small stream, and only stopped as I saw a big rounded tree. What made me stop was that the tree had leaves the size of a palm. Bigger then any size I had seen in my life. I stepped under its shade looking closer at the magical tree and found that my name was carved at its big trunk. I was still surprised and bewildered at my finding when I felt the tree shake and a leaf fell in front of me. I was about to pick it up when more and more leaves started to fall, Leaving the tree with only half of the leaves. I tried my best to stop my tree from shaking when I woke up from my dream. I was breathing heavily. My heart was beating fast. I was soaked. “My life, The leaves are falling one by one from my life.” I said to myself, as I closed my eyes hoping for my life to find spring again.

After you grow as an adult, the age is just not a number, but a mind set.

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

Age can’t dull the beauty of life that reflects and radiates from within.

Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.

Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

Age is a mental construct. It is something that exists solely in an individual’s head.

Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year

Age is just a number that stops us from doing stupid things, that later when we are on our deathbeds call it our best moments in life.

Age is neither a limit nor an exception to realize your true potential or the way you want to live your life

Age isn't our final destiny, it's the youth we keep alive within.

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Age means nothing. There are the living and the dead, that's all.

Aging is inevitable but growing old is a choice.

A grandfather clause, I thought. And what place was more fitted for one than an old-age home?

...a great future behind him, already

A lady is as young as the gentleman she feels," said Roy and cackled happily.

Alas, alas! we poor mortals are often little better than wood-ashes — there is small sign of the sap, and the leafy freshness, and the bursting buds that were once there; but wherever we see wood-ashes, we know that all that early fullness of life must have been. I, at least, hardly ever look at a bent old man, or a wizened old woman, but I see also, with my mind’s eye, that Past of which they are the shrunken remnant, and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and bright eyes seems sometimes of feeble interest and significance, compared with that drama of hope and love which has long ago reached its catastrophe, and left the poor soul, like a dim and dusty stage, with all its sweet garden-scenes and fair perspectives overturned and thrust out of sight.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch

Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.

...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.

[A]lthough wisdom is built on life experience, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don’t fall for the trap of dream killers

A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.

...A mirror can trick you day by day into thinking you remain looking and existing in one way forever. But a photograph presents you with the truth: it freezes you eternally, existing as a reminder that you can never, ever go back to any one moment again- that you are always changing, hour by hour, cell by cell, in tiny fragments that build skyscrapers overnight.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, either. She seemed to consider things like age and family and income to be of the same a priori order as shoe size and vocal pitch and the shape of one’s fingernails. The sort of thing that thinking about won’t change one bit. And that much said, well, she had a point.

And that unconscious ease that comes of being so young — still oblivious to the blows that will destroy parts of her. Past the age of forty, everyone is like a bombed-out city.

And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert landscape unchanging: a long, unwinding scroll that I would one day amuse myself by filling. I'm going to remember everything and then I'm going to write it all down. An aria to a coat. A requiem for a café. That's what I was thinking, in my dream, looking down at my hands.

And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

And to Tiger Lily he suddenly, inexplicably, seemed older than her, and wiser, and the thought hit her hard that it wasn't fair, because she'd suffered, and there he was, looking like he knew so much more than she ever would.

And you that sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

An old, tired man. That is what I am. What became of the old fire, drive, ambition? There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronising wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

Anyway, it's like when Kate Hudson was hooking up with that Jonas brother. It was kind of weird at first and then we all got used to it and nobody gave it a second thought. If anything, people applauded her because she's not afraid to go after what she wants. And she really wanted that cute little Jonas brother.

Age does not count if you are capable, to make happy your opposite sex, in basic terms of love and respect.

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

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.

Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.

Ageing is the ultimate death.

Age and status is not the matter in the true and the real love.