With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

—Ellen Glasgow

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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim. A lifelong Virginian, Glasgow portrayed the...

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What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

—Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

—Ellen Glasgow

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It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

—Edith Wharton

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

—Doris Lessing

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