I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old Quotes

“Some of us need to be as sympathetic and understanding of our own failures of the past as we seek now to be understanding of others. We need to remember that we were a work in progress then—as we are still, I hope—and that we had our unique problems and shortcomings that made it difficult for us to be as fine as we wish now we had been. It isn’t fair to impose a sixty-year-old’s judgment on a twelve-year-old’s frame. The”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“Why should I allow their deeds to control me still, decades later?”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“If our past fences us in with resentment and with desires for revenge, we are old before our time because the past holds us captive. If I can’t forgive someone who has hurt me in the past, even if the hurting was mean and intentional, I am letting them control me years later. It is enough that someone hurt me when I was five or fifteen or fifty. Why let them continue to hurt me today? Why should I allow their”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“One of the ways to grow older without growing old is to become a beneficiary of your past rather than its victim or its prisoner.”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“I have no right to argue with you because I haven’t walked in your shoes, nor do I have your feet.”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“They were, indeed, giants in the land in those days—because, of course, giants get their prominence partly by comparison with one’s own height. Gulliver, after all, wasn’t a giant until he came to the world of the Lilliputians. I”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“You can’t possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“Whatever the national or world scene and whatever the economy or the tide of war and peace, each of us has to live out our own lives.”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“If we think effectively and productively about growing older, the odds are good that we’ll never have to grow old.”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old

“Which leads me to what I want to say in these several pages: I love growing older. But I don’t want to grow old. Growing older is a process. Growing old is a conclusion. Growing older means that you’re going somewhere, and that in God’s kindness and in your cooperating with God you are taking more of life’s conquests every day. Growing old means that you’ve reached somewhere and that’s it. Older is a journey. Old is a destination. Mind you, I believe in a destination, but my idea of a destination for life is heaven. I want everything prior to heaven to be part of my preparation for that destination. If I settle for old as my destination, I will rob myself of some of the best years of preparation for the big exit, the grand eternal journey. When”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old