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
      

Illusions

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions;
reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- Simone Weil

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

How strange; when an illusion dies,
it's as though you've lost a child.
- Judy Garland

Growing up is best measured in terms of illusions lost.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: All Is Not As It Appears

The Illusion of Knowledge

Practice Keen Awareness

Finding Your True Self

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

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

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

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous

Today's affirmation:
I follow my own star and my own inner compass.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Your Intuition is Your Guide

Be Simply Yourself

The Inner You

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
 

Growing Together

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Extend a hand whether or not you know it shall be grasped.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

Further reading: Better Than Competition

The Best Leader

Growing up without growing old

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Sayings

Quotes about Being Happy

Deep Quotes

Quotes about Letting Go

Growing Up Quotes

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

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

Think young. Act young. Be young.

Further reading: Never stop learning

The power of laughter

Deflect the blows of life

How to Build Self Esteem

Growing Up Quotes
New Beginnings Quotes
Sad Quotes about Life
Giving Up Quotes
Karma Quotes
Funny Quotes

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