May Sarton Quotes

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

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

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I've never been scared of aging.

My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

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 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.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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

The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

It is not easy to age in harmony with one's roles.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.