Inspirational Age Quotes

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~ Judith Regan

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. ~ Harrison Ford

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. ~ Bernard Baruch

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~ Victor Hugo

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about. ~ Eileen Caddy

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers ... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. ~ Terry Pratchett

[Mrs. Clare] is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger-colored, gingery-tempered woman of unrevealed age ("That's for me to know, and you to guess") but promptly revealed opinions, most of which are announced in a voice of rooster-crow altitude and penetration. ~ Truman Capote

I wanted to come back the minute I'd Disapparated, but I walked straight into a gang of Snatchers, Hermione, and I couldn't go anywhere!"
"A gang of what?" asked Harry, as Hermione threw herself down into a chair with her arms and legs crossed so tightly it seemed unlikely that she would unravel them for several years.
"Snatchers," said Ron. "They're everywhere--gangs trying to earn gold by rounding up Muggle-borns and blood traitors, there's a reward from the Ministry for everyone captured. I was on my own and I look like I might be school age; they got really excited, thought I was a Muggle-born in hiding. I had to talk fast to get out of being dragged to the Ministry."
"What did you say to them?"
"Told them I was Stan Shunpike. First person I could think of."
"And they believed that?"
"They weren't the brightest. One of them was definitely part troll, the smell off him…"
Ron glanced at Hermione, clearly hopeful she might soften at this small instance of humor, but her expression remained stony above her tightly knotted limbs. ~ J.K. Rowling

Can you hear me? Sighing. You were right. My requiem is well prepared. Still to be written is the poem that is never complete, an endless rubbing on the ink block, an endless dipping of the pen, an endless swoop over the white paper, the poem of my life. I will try to write it down. Soon, no, now, I will try. The first line. I called him Necktie. I will write: He taught me to see with eyes of feeling. ~ Milena Michiko Flasar

Take a leap of faith right now and know that you can live the life of your dreams by making a positive decision. ~ Auliq Ice

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. ~ J.F. Kennedy

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. ~ Tina Fey

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way. ~ Dave Eggers

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it. ~ Judy Blume

Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors and school teachers. ~ Njovana Watts

Few people repent at leisure after taking the high road. ~ Walter Spence

Don't do that to me. Losing you would not be good for my mental health, get it? ~ James L. Rubart

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. ~ Nora Ephron

You're on God's mind, He thinks a lot about you and has good plans for your life. ~ Jamie Larbi

Feel and love and then let it go. ~ Debasish Mridha

When my muffin top makes an appearance after a dedicated weekend of pizza indulging, when I feel too tired to write and all my words sound boring, when my students aren't laughing at my jokes, I am still enough. ~ Michelle Elaine Kennedy

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. ~ Ilchi Lee

And from an early age she enjoyed the best education available in the Hellenistic world, at the hands of the most gifted scholars, in what was incontestably the greatest center of learning in existence: ~ Stacy Schiff

Hold on to your own ideal ... Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, "boss" others. Be the servant of all. ~ Swami Vivekananda

Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you. ~ Derek Jeter

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ~ John Lennon

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Problems in your life are like the weights in the gym. You can either get weighed down by them or turn them to your advantage and become stronger. ~ Toffee

To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now ~ Eckhart Tolle

Remember, you are powerful and you can always reclaim your space. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Peace can only survive when fed peace. ~ Kierra C.T. Banks

In an age of abstract experience, fornication
Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
Are precious. ~ Allen Tate

I am deaf to the word 'no'. ~ Dhirubhai Ambani

As we become more open and accepting of others and appreciative of what they have to offer, they open up more to us in return. ~ Joseph Deitch

Self-love is extremely important. Love yourself enough to be unique; forge your own path. Stand out if you must! ~ Apryl L Yates