Then the not so fine one day, you realize you are getting or growing old. The problem is no one prepares for this quiet transition of fading youth.
The next thing is keeping up with aging becomes your daily concern or worries. Your self-esteem is now has being tested daily.
Aging is not for the faint heart. You will encounter many physical, mental, and emotional health challenges as you get older. The physical and psychological journey you have as you age can be painful and traumatizing.
For those who are still young, live the present moment and "enjoy every sandwich" as what the late musician Warren Zevon said.
Now, let's check through my list of 11quotes on old age and wisdom:
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” - C.S. Lewis
reading, fairy-tales
"When you're old, you get to behave at any age you want." - Quotesan
behave
“I am not young enough to know everything.” - Oscar Wilde
young, know, everything
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” - Mark Twain
wrinkles, smile
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
child, children
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
person, hear, old man
"The first forty years of life furnish the text, while the remaining thirty supply the commentary.- Arthur Schopenhauer (Counsels and Maxims)
years, commentary
"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age." - Victor Hugo
youth
"Old age though despised, is coveted by all." - Proverb
despise
"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us." - Josh Billings
difficulties
"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment." - Benjamin Franklin
wit, judgment
"Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret." - Benjamin Disraeli
blunder, manhood, regret
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