CONCEPTION
Connection, love, desire, passion, hope
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. It proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
- Robert Anton Wilson
NEWBORN
Creation, awakening, wonder, emotion, transformation
Birth is a time of deep transformation. We enter labour with excitement, trepidation and sometimes fear. We emerge with power, confidence and love.
- Toni Lee Rakestraw
INFANT
Innocence, joy, vitality, activity, optimism
A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years, and in your heart until the day you die.
- Mary Mason
TODDLER
Energy, zest, excitement, exuberance, imagination
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
- Walt Streightiff
CHILD
Vigour, positivity, playfulness, confidence, nonchalance
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
- Louis de Bernières
PRETEEN
Youth, curiosity, adventure, intelligence, ingenuity
Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
ADOLESCENT
Discovery, fertility, vivacity, dynamism, creativity
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.
- Ned Vizzini
ADULT
Evolution, pursuit, stamina, ambition, responsibility
A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz
MIDLIFER
Focus, warmth, experience, contemplation, introspection
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
- Hervey Allen
MATURE ADULT
Dignity, simplicity, stability, endurance, benevolence
It takes a mature person to be really young.
- Anonymous
SILVER ADULT
Balance, wisdom, tranquillity, understanding, contentment
You don't stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.
- George Bernard Shaw
JOURNEY'S END
Serenity, spirituality, peace, harmony, eternity
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J K Rowling