"Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.''..."
- Margery Williams Bianco
"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and ..."
- Gabriel García Márquez
"How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face."
- W.B. Yeats
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"I think people would live a bit longer if they didn't know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things."
- Karl Pilkington
"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
- Terry Pratchett
"I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the..."
- Jessie B. Rittenhouse
"Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom"
- George Carlin
"Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead ..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perf..."
- Abhysheq Shukla