Harold Kushner Quotes

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.

I do know middle age can bring greater depth, greater wisdom, greater capacity for love, greater capacity for relationship, greater consciousness and desire to serve and awareness of the fate of mankind - all these wonderful things, yes. And I know I'm getting there.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

One should mature over 20 years.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

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

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Love has more depth as you get older.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

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

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.