Quotes About Acceptance

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...

Fear comes with middle age.

And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.

With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.

The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.

As you age, feelings do diminish.

I hate the fearful trimming of possibilities that age brings.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

I don't want to age myself.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

I've never worried about age.