Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

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

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life's purpose. Go do it.

With time, you do get mature.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.