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The Eight Ages of A Man's Life
Famous and great quotes about the eight Ages of Man help you find your place in time .. the cycle and stage of life you are appearing on.
Life Ages & Transitions
Our lives pass before our eyes like a fleeting vision .... A car moves down the motorway "swallowing" a mile or more of road a minute, and so pass our lives. We can't hold on to the past, and as we anticipate the [immediate] future it has already met us and flow by.
- Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
- The Bhagavad Gita
Age One: Childhood
Childhood is a magical time. Each day is full of new surprises and each night is full of deep slumbers. Here are a few inspiring quotes about that magical and wonderful age ..
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
- Jane Howard
It takes a village to raise a child.
- African proverb
Critical Tasks
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
- Tom Robbins
Challenges
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
- Dennis Fakes
The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force, it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
... [as] a consistently strong wind may cause a tree to grow crooked so one's environment can affect one's development.
- Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani
In the Mystic Footsteps of Saints, Vol. 2
Age Two: Adolescents & Students
For inspiring, great and famous quotes about adolescence, read these.
Age Three: Young Adult & Worker
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned.
- Thomas H. Huxley
Ask not what you can expect of life, ask what life expects of you.
- Victor Frankl
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.
- da vinci
Age Four: Adult & Householder:
Age Five: Mature Adult
For inspiring, great and famous quotes about parenting, read these. Or you can read about related life events: MidLife Crisis.
Age Six: Elder
Do not let a man measure you for your coffin before you are dead.
~ Manifest (quote about Being Measured By The Universe)
Getting old is wonderful, when you consider the alternative.
- unknown
Perhaps my best days are gone .. but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.
- SAmuel Beckett
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Feibig
Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.
- Jonathan Carroll
Do not resist growing old -- many are denied the privilege.
- unknown
‘The rest is up to you' I tell my clients ... Every few years they come back, so I have snapshots in my head of how they've changed over the years. The ones who've changed the most finally bought that boat, moved to that island. Those who haven't changed, I suppose they take comfort in knowing what course their lives are on. They like to believe they know what lies ahead.
- Shall We Dance (movie quote)
The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die.
- E. T. Trigg
Age Seven: Sage
The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched ...
- Henry David Thoreau
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a great folly to wish to be wise alone.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age brings experience and a good mind wisdom.
- Greek proverb
It is not the years in your life, but the life in your years that count.
- Adlai Stevenson
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
A young person knows the rules, but the old person knows the exceptions.
- Unknown
Maybe you judge what you leave behind by what you inspire in other people.
- Kinky Boots (movie)
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.- Philip Slater
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
- Harry Seidler
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can
do something about its width and depth.-unknown
As you grow older, you'll discover that you have two hands: One for helping yourself, the second for helping others.
-unknown
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?
Age Eight: Death & Transition
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
For inspiring, great and famous quotes about death, read these.
