Aging and Maturity
“Aging is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the more tired you become, but your view becomes much more extensive.” Ingmar Bergman
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65…and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?” Anne Lamott
“The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. “Because I think I’m making progress,” he replied.” Author Unknown
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the ‘fresh life within’ that age reveals to us, if we only give it a chance.”
Joan D. Chittister from
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
“Some people try to turn back their odometers, not me. I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve travled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.” Unknown Author.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,
he becomes an adolescent;
the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult.”
Alden Nowlan
“Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom,
it’s adolescence.” from @mcgahasteve
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65…and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?” Anne Lamott
“The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. “Because I think I’m making progress,” he replied.” Author Unknown
“We need to think again about the beauties of age, its freedom and its splendor. It is the ‘fresh life within’ that age reveals to us, if we only give it a chance.”
Joan D. Chittister from
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
“Some people try to turn back their odometers, not me. I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve travled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.” Unknown Author.
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect,
he becomes an adolescent;
the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult.”
Alden Nowlan
“Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom,
it’s adolescence.” from @mcgahasteve
