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Discover inspirational birthday and age quotes for deep and thoughtful introspection that may lead to a better life in the future.
These are not common inspirational birthday and age quotes. They are quotes for deep and thoughtful introspection. They can provide us with an opportunity to reflect on our existence, our purpose, and the choices we make. And, by pondering over these profound thoughts, we can gain valuable insights and make conscious decisions that shape our future. These quotes act as guiding lights in our journey, urging us to delve deeper and seek the truth within ourselves. They encourage mindfulness, self-awareness, and the pursuit of personal growth. So, let us embrace these words of wisdom and let them ignite a spark of introspection within our hearts and minds, guiding us toward a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
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Inspirational birthday and age quotes
Everyone perceives time and years differently and there are different ways to count age. We calculate our age from our date of birth. We count our biological age through specific tests. And, there is the age that we feel. So, as we grow birthdays may take a different meaning for everyone from joy and happiness to skepticism or even sadness. But, if we thought it with realism, our birth anniversary is a day of great luck. We are still alive. And, this could be the real reason for the first birthday cakes in Germany during the 15th century. To celebrate that their child managed to survive one more year despite difficulties. And, of course, there is the aspect of birthday absence like in the culture of Bhutan.
Meaningful age quotes
“We all have souls of different ages”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
— John Lennon
“Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
— Anton Chekhov
“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.
A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
— Anaïs Nin
“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”
— Milan Kundera
“We are always the same age inside. “
— Gertrude Stein
Encouraging quotes for young age
“It takes a long time to become young.”
― Pablo Picasso
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.”
— Julian Barnes
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
— Albert Einstein
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Inspirational old age quotes
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
— Aldous Huxley
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old,
they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
— Gabriel García Márquez
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.”
— Madeleine L’Engle
More inspiring quotes about age, life, and introspection
One day I asked a friend who was celebrating his 54th birthday what advice he would give his younger self if it was possible. Much to my surprise, he didn’t answer with a short answer even after some silent thinking. He started embarking on a convoluted explanation riddled with irrelevant anecdotes from his past. So, in this period of more than a half-century, he hadn’t managed to stumble upon an important piece of advice for his life. It became abundantly clear that his ramblings failed to produce any meaningful conclusion. Such is the futility of seeking wisdom from the age. But, this is the problem with the wisdom, that life’s experiences give us; it can’t be taught or transmitted with words. You must experience it yourself to learn and know. Maybe you can try to be prepared or cautious only to avoid big problems. It’s like toddlers’ training; they will never understand what is hot until they feel a little burn.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
— Sylvia Plath
“I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.”
— Virginia Woolf
“But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize”.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
—Sigmund Freud
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