[PHOTO SOURCE: National Geographic online images]
(Weathered clothes pins on clothes line in an outdoor setting)
Our middle years are the best of times and proffer a chance to take 'stock' of where we have been and where we want to go. Down the road of tomorrow, the ravages of age will line the face and make us frail. However, these are but layers of time cocooning the child that lives in happy wonderment of making it to another birthday. [~Dorothy Hazel Tarr-2011]
Each year is a special gift that you can hold and put into your Heart's Treasure Chest nestled with all the treasures and memories of yesterday. [~Dorothy Hazel Tarr-2011]
Below are some quotes that touch a special place in my mind and heart. (dht)
Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. [~Charles Dickens]
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. [~Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.]
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. [~Ogden Nash]
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. [~Author Unknown]
The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." [~David Grayson]
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. [~Author Unknown]
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people, the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. [~Charles Dickens]
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. [~Mark Twain]
It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. [Author Unknown]
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. [~Samuel Ullman]
There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. [~Author Unknown]
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. [~Bob Hope]
The years teach much which the days never knew. [~Ralph Waldo Emerson]
In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. [~Nikita Ivanovich Panin]
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. [~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. [~John Barrymore]
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. [~Caryn Leschen]
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. [~Victor Hugo]
Years ago, we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. [~Franklin Adams]
Everyone is the age of their heart. [~Guatemalan Proverb]
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. [~Dorothy Fulheim]
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. [~J.B. Priestly]
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. [~Author Unknown]
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. [~Oliver Wendell Holmes]
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. [~Tom Stoppard]
The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. [~Judith Regan]
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. [~Mark Twain]
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. [~Doris Lessing]
There is still no cure for the common birthday. [~John Glenn]
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. [~Martin Buxbaum]
You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. [~Author Unknown]
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. [~T.S. Eliot]
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. [~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
