How can one accept—let alone enjoy—aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy?

—Genie Zeiger

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be."… This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

—Thomas Moore

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Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.

—Ray Bradbury in Dandelion Wine

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History

23 Nov 2014 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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How can one accept — let alone enjoy — aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy?