resilience Quotes

“Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.”

“I don't mind my age.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.”

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

“I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.”

“Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.”

“Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.”

“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”