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Quotables...music for the heart!

Youth is a circumtance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.-- Marshall Ganz

Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.-- Betty Talmadge

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.-- Sophia Loren

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. --Cynthia Ozick

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. --Los Angeles Times

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Older people who shine from inside look 10 to 20 years younger. --Dolly Parton

Don't go through life, grow through life. --Eric Butterworth

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. --Charlie Brown

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die--whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.  -- Gilda Radner

While there is snow on the roof, it doesn't mean the fire has gone out in the furnace.--John G. Diefenbaker

Age is not important unless you're a cheese. --Helen Hayes

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright. --Lucille Ball

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. --Fred Astaire

We have to grow, move forward, to learn and evolve, add to our dictionary of life..--Janet Leigh

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned 60 and that's the law. --Jerry Seinfeld

Age is a question of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. --Satchel Paige

The reason that grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.--Sam Levinson

The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an older person. --Unknown

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. --Ralph B. Perry

You only live life once, but if you do it right, once is enough. --Mae West

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. --Samual Ullman

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.--Mohammad Ali

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. --Mark Twain

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. --Groucho Marx

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