Aging
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
—Wilson Mizner
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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there.
―Tom Waits
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
—Bob Hope
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
―Anaïs Nin
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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.
―Winston Churchill
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I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms
of my trousers rolled.
―T.S. Eliot
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But I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
―Bob Dylan
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Kim Gordon just cured my fear of aging.
―TikTok user
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May you live all the days of your life.
—Jonathan Swift
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