Grace and Grit

When we’re young we have faith in what is seen, but when we’re old we know that what is seen is traced in air and built on water. – Maxwell Anderson

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become

As they draw near to their eternal home.

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view

That stand upon the threshold of the new.

– Edmund Waller

The great secret that all old people share is that you really

haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years.  

Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.

– Doris Lessing

Grow old along with me.  The best is yet to be.  – Robert Browning

It takes a long time to become young.  –  Pablo Picasso

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. –  Frank Lloyd Wright

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.  – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. – Garson Kanin

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. - Plato

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. – W. Somerset Maugham