George MacDonald Quotes

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

I believe that change keeps you young.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

Some age, others mature.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.

All of us grow.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It's not humanly possible for anyone not to go through changes. Change is a constant in everyone's life, even in mine. I have enjoyed the change at every stage of my life.

Because I'm not the same today as I was in '58, or '59 or even '71.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

Things evolve. People mature.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.