Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Growing old is not growing up.
Growing older doesn't bother me.
As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Ageing is inevitable, and the idea that we can be eternally youthful is the pitfall of our society.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea.
I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
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