One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Getting older brings change and difference rather than improvement, which can be enjoyed.
- In plain terms
- Age makes you different, not better, and that is okay.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept aging as change rather than improvement.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do you see aging as gain or loss?
- What pleases you about growing older?
Another view
Some may find the idea that aging is not improvement unhelpful for those seeking self-betterment.
More from Gertrude Stein
Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
Permalink to quote #1 No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no s…
Permalink to quote #3 When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.
Permalink to quote #4
Related quotes
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
Sarah Orne JewettSarah Orne Jewett quote #14 He hath shook hands with time.
John (dramatist) FordJohn (dramatist) Ford quote #21 Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his …
Philip Kindred DickPhilip Kindred Dick quote #35