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

Taken at face value, the line contrasts chronological aging with an inner, experiential kind of growth: time does not merely make us “older,” it can make us “newer” through learning, renewal, and changed perception. The phrasing suggests a deliberately paradoxical optimism—each day offers the possibility of becoming more alive, more awake, or more transformed, rather than simply diminished by passing years. Read as a maxim, it encourages a stance toward life in which maturity is measured by continual re-creation of the self, not by accumulation of years. However, without a reliable attribution or source, any interpretation remains general rather than tied to a specific authorial occasion or theme.