Growing Up Without Growing Old

 
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

Too many people grow up.
That's the real trouble with the world,
too many people grow up. They forget.
- Walt Disney

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

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

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Stay Young

Never Stop Learning

Staying Young

Never Too Old

Unstoppable Youth

The Power of Laughter

A Young Child
 

A Ray of Beauty

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Further reading: Take time to Smell the Flowers

Lighten Up, Life Isn't Serious

Choose Not To Stress
      

Beauty Surpasses Utility

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Further reading: Lighten Up, Life Isn't Serious

Time to Smell the Flowers 

Choose Not To Stress
      

Your sense of humor makes you more human

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor
makes you more human, more humble.
The sense of humor - according to me -
is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.
- Osho

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Need for Humor

Not Too Serious

Be as a Child

Cherish the Whimsey
    

Laugh at Life

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Today is your day to laugh at life.
Laugh loud - laugh often.
Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad.
Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: As a Child Again - Halloween

The Need for Humor

Do Something Crazy

What lessons might Halloween hold for us?
    

The Need for Humor

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance
to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign
that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey

Further reading: Laugh at Yourself

Sense of Humor

Tears and laughter cleanse the heart

The Power of Laughter

May love and laughter light your days

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Power of Laughter

Through humor, you can soften some
of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter,
no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

A sense of humor... is needed armor.
Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign
that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey

Laughter gives us distance.
It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
- Bob Newhart

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Sense of Humor

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Be Cheerful

Lighten Up

Growing Up - Staying Young

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

Too many people grow up.
That's the real trouble with the world,
too many people grow up. They forget.
- Walt Disney

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

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

Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Stay Young

Never Stop Learning

Staying Young

Never Too Old

Unstoppable Youth

The Power of Laughter

A Young Child
 

Looking Foolish

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have
the possibility of being great.
- Cher

There's something liberating about not pretending.
Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
- Drew Barrymore

People do not wish to appear foolish.
To avoid the appearance of foolishness,
they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance
to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Further reading: April Fool

Celebrate Whimsey Today

Do Something Crazy

Dare

Courage

Failure

Humor 

Sense of Humor

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole
that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.
And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be,
you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Laugh at Yourself

Tears and laughter cleanse the heart

May love and laughter light your days

The Power of Laughter

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Laugh at yourself and at life.
Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity,
but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,
cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective
that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
with laughter at your predicaments,
thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution
that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
- Og Mandino

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life Is Not Meant to be Serious

Further reading: April Fool

Celebration

Discouraged?

You Are Blessed

Laugh

Stress

Zen Quotes

Worry

Winnie The Pooh Quotes

Serenity
 

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- jlh

A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes a compassionate religion from a cult.
- jlh

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- jlh

Further reading: Deflect the blows of life

How To Be Happy In Life - The 9 Paths To Happiness

Mark Twain: The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

CELEBRATION - the seventh Point of Simply An Inspired Life

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Henry Ward Beecher

Tears and laughter cleanse the heart. - jlh