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Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
Sep 10, 2025
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
Happy birthday,” she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo
He not busy being born is busy dying.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.