#aging

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core. ↗

— Kevin Brockmeier

#humor #joking #questions #wit #age

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate? ↗

— Nora Ephron

#illusion #love #relationships #true-love #wisdom

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you. ↗

— Penelope Smith

#inspirational #positive #communication

A dream only becomes overrated when not pursued by the dreamer. ↗

— Courtney Hickman

#dreams-inspirational #encouragement #encouraging #goals #inspirational

The water doesn't know how old you are. ↗

— Dara Torres

#inspirational #motivation #swimming #age

Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them? ↗

— Jetta Carleton

#family #inspirational #reminiscing #age

I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in my eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing--yes,-- I'm growing old. ↗

— John Godfrey Saxe

#growing-old #humor #old-age #age

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. ↗

— Carol Shields

#humor #living #age

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. ↗

— Oscar Arias

#inspirational #justice #widsom #equality

In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#eliminate #life #managing #nourish #poison