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
 

Train Yourself to See Beauty

See beauty in unexpected places.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
- Wayne Dyer

Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes.
- Jewel

A flower is a weed seen through joyful eyes.
The virtue of anyone or anything is solely in our perspective.
See gold, and there is gold; see lead and there is lead.
If you see this thistle as a thorny nuisance, then it is a weed.
If you appreciate its bright pink bloom, then it is a flower.
It becomes what you name it.
The power is in your choice, your perspective, your speaking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Further reading: What One Emphasizes

Beauty is Everywhere

Simply Marvelous
    

Nothing is Impossible when You are Young in Spirit

The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible -
and achieve it,
generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing is Impossible when You are Young in Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: How to Stay Young

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Aging With Grace
      

Honor Your Curiosity

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

Curiosity is one of the main factors that keeps us excited and engaged with life.
Being curious, we look forward to the adventures that lie ahead.
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People die when curiosity goes.
- Graham Swift

Further reading: Asking Better Questions

Taking the Leap

Misinformation

Curious, Not Judgmental
    

Never Stop Growing

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

Unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Jesus (Matthew 18:3)

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
As we age, we experience disappointments,
and then develop a fear of the unfamiliar.
Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Try Something New

Childlike Wonder

Welcome Change
     

Curiosity Keeps Us Young

Curiosity is one of the main factors that keeps us excited and engaged with life.
Being curious, we look forward to the adventures that lie ahead.
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan

People die when curiosity goes.
- Graham Swift

Further reading: Asking Better Questions

Taking the Leap

Misinformation

Curious, Not Judgmental
    

As a Young Child

Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
As we age, we experience disappointments,
and then develop a fear of the unfamiliar.
Consciously adopt the mindset of a young child,
to whom all of life is a grand adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Become more and more innocent,
less knowledgeable and more childlike.
Take life as fun -
because that's precisely what it is!
- Osho

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

Unless you change and become like little children,
you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
- Jesus (Matthew 18:3)


Further reading:Childlike Wonder

Try Something New

Welcome Change
   

Keeping Curiosity Alive

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be curious, not judgmental.
- Walt Whitman

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

Curiosity is one of the main factors that keeps us excited and engaged with life.
Being curious, we look forward to the adventures that lie ahead.
Curiosity keeps one young - in thought and in action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: A Fire to be Kindled

Asking Better Questions

Power of Imagination

Wild Songs Of Adventure

Eternity

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
 

Never Too Old

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life,
the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
- Art Linkletter expressed these thoughts on smiling, positive attitude and a second prime when he was 94.

You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous

Live your best life, not your age.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Never Too Late

Aging With Grace by Dr. David Mokotoff

Growing up without growing old

How to Stay Young

Renewing Yourself

Your Life

Grace

Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The young do not know enough to be prudent,
and therefore they attempt the impossible -
and achieve it,
generation after generation.
- Pearl S. Buck

The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

Further reading:  How to Stay Young

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

Be Brave and Chase Your Dreams

Aging With Grace

Youth

Young

Growth

Quality

Circumstances

Achievement

Staying Young

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous

Please read How to Stay Young - my compilation of quotes, studies, and my own thoughts on staying young.


Further reading: Aging With Grace by Dr. David Mokotoff

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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

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