Amy Bloom Quotes

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Everybody complains about getting older, but I find it such a rich time of life. There are negative things about it, I suppose, but more than that, I'm finding it to be a very positive experience in which growth suggests itself in a much more alluring way than it did when I was young - isn't that funny?

My later years are my treasure years.

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

You can have a full life after 50.

I'd like to prove that if you take care of yourself, you can actually not regret the fact that you've become an old-timer, but you can just still improve and actually get better.

As you get older, you start trying to eat a little bit better, and just do a little better.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Try to be a better person everyday.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.