Robert James Waller Quotes

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

I've elected to age gracefully.

I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!

I believe in aging gracefully.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

One can't feel old in a day or overnight!

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

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.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I am what I am - which is I have aged.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

You have to embrace getting older.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

One should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.