Aging Quotes - Page 13

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

I can, therefore I am.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

If you wonder how you'll get through this new heartbreak, just think back. Remember all you've been through in the past. And how each time you swore, you'd never get through it. But you did. And look where you're at now. This too shall pass!

Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

You punch like you take it up the ass.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.