Simple Truths: Good Grief, It's Your Birthday!

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GROWING UP WITHOUT GROWING OLD

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GROWING UP WITHOUT GROWING OLD Based on the comic strip, PEANUTS, by Charles M. Schulz

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Birthdays are

good for you.

Statistics show that the people who have the most

live the longest. — Larry Lorenzoni

People shouldn’t be

embarrassed just because they get caught acting a little

silly.

— Charles Schulz

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Recall it as often as you wish, a happy memory

never wears out.

— Libbie Fudim

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You only live once… but if you live it right,

once is enough. — Joe E. Lewis

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Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the

younger generation. — Harold Coffin

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The only

real way

to look younger is

not to be born so soon. — Charles Schulz

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up

without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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Life

is like an

ice-cream cone,

you have to lick it one day at a time. — Charles Schulz

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. — Charles Schulz

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Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong. — Charles Schulz

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You can’t help getting older, but

you don’t have to get old.

— George Burns

Aging

seems to be the

only available way to live a long life.

— Kitty O’Neill Collins

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