None of us knows what we want to do when we’re his age. When we’re your age, when you’re my age. Any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we’re right, but only ever in retrospect.
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People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.
Your ability to love and be loved never expire. It doesn’t matter how old you are or how many heartaches you’ve been through, the heart is resilient. It’s never too late for love.
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and…
Wanna feel old? Make comparative judgments based on how long you’ve been alive versus how long younger people have been alive. Wild.
Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil.
Forget your real age for a second – now tell yourself how old are you?
I think nature is supremely indifferent to whether we live or die. I mean, if you're lucky, you get 75 years, if you're really lucky you get 80 years, and if you're extraordinarily lucky, you get to live 50 of those years with a decent head of hair.
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
Age is just a number you write into a box when you register as a sex offender.
Maybe a wise grandpa made sense to them. But grandma? In the Oval Office? Shaking their heads. Does. Not. Compute. America worships youthful femininity, and our pop culture, if not our policies, idolizes mom. But what do we do with women once they’re not in either of those roles? We minimize and ign…
No one has talked about this much, but it’s a very real phenomenon in this election. The presidential nominee is confounding America because she represents a demographic that our culture secretly dislikes: older women.
Everyone is on their own path. Everyone is going to have their own journey to get where they want to go. So, don’t let a number define you. Don’t ever let a number make you feel inadequate.
No society on earth comes close to matching America’s youthful imagination, its liberation of youthful energies, colors, forms, products, and narratives, all of which appeal directly to what is most neotenic or childlike in our nature. That America is comprehensible from the perspectives of all othe…
I will never be old. I will never be sad. I’d scarf a cyanide capsule first. Life isn’t worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on t…
Because of my father, I know not to settle for less than I deserve. He has taught me age is no barrier and that I should set the pace of my own life.
We have never before been so young, nor so old.
When you get older and wiser, you get your confidence from within, not from the person you are having sex with.
A young boy and his grandfather in an old-growth forest of the Pacific Northwest may cast their eyes on the same giant redwood, yet they do not see the same phenomenon. Because of their age difference, it appears one way to the boy, another to his elder. The sky I see today is more or less the same…