Robert Bly Quotes

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

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

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

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

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

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

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

One should mature over 20 years.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

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

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

Some age, others mature.

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

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.

I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.