Inspirational Birthday Quotes

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Birthdays Are Special

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~ Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
~ Sammy Hagar

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope

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Blessings of Growing Older

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~ Martin Buxbaum

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
~ Jonathan Swift

You're not getting older, you're getting better.
~ Unknown

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
~ Anouk Aimee

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
~ Jean Renoir

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
~ Oliver Goldsmith

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
~ Plato

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Bright Future

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
~ Lucy Larcom

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...
~ Robert Browning

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Enjoy Your Life

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey

May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
~ John Mason

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
~ Ernest Meyers

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Eternal Youthfulness

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~ Les Brown

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson

We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Everyone is the age of their heart.
~ Guatemalan proverb

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.
~ Molly Keane

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
~ James A. Garfield

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
~ Albert Camus

Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso

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Friends

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world;
yours gave to me a friend.
~ Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. IX, ep. 53)

A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age.
~ Unknown

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
~ Oliver Goldsmith

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Middle Age

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
~ Don Marquis

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
~ John Andrew Holmes

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Quotes by Famous People

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
~ Goethe

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
~ Plato

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...
~ Robert Browning

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
~ Virginia Woolf

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
~ William Shakespeare

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides

"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
~ Goethe

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
~ Plato

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...
~ Robert Browning

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
~ Virginia Woolf

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
~ William Shakespeare

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Romantic

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...
~ Robert Browning

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
~ William Shakespeare

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Spiritual

There is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.
~ Bible Ecclesiastes 3:1

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
~ Billy Mills

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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19th Birthday

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
~ Jim Bishop

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30th Birthday

Time and Tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~ Robert Frost.shtml***

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
~ Georges Clemenceau

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40th Birthday

Life begins at forty.
~ W. B. Pitkin

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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50th Birthday

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel

70th Birthday

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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80th Birthday

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
~ Jean Renoir

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