The Last Word:
Words of Wisdom About Aging
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«Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other»
«In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.»
«Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.»
«Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.»
«While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.»
«I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crow’s feet. »
«It's never too late to have a happy childhood.»
«And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!»
«Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.»
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«An old young man, will be a young old man.»
«Lost time is never found again.»
«One today is worth two tomorrows.»
«I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.»
«Old age is no place for sissies.»
«Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.»
«I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.»
«I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.»
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«You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.»
«Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional»
«The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.»
«I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.»
«Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.»
«Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there’s always new stories ... And as long as people want me to tell them, I’ll be there doing them.»
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«Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.»
«Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.»
«Never put an age limit on your dreams»
«The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. ‘Why,’ I answered without a thought, ‘now.’»
«We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.»
«I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.»
«The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.»
«The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.»
«Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair.»
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«Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.»
«It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.»
«When I go hiking and I get over the hill, That means I am past the hard part and there is a snack in my future. That’s a good thing as far as I am concerned.»
«Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.»
«The boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.»
«Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.»
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«We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it”»
«The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.»
«Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.»
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«Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.»
«We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.»
«You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.»
«I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.»
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«As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.»
«None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.»
«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.»
«To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.»
«Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.»
«No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.»
«Seize the day.»
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«Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.»
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«Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.»
«We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.»
«You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.»
«I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.»
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«Retirement is not one of the topics with which I deal. Why should I?... Chanel will still need some clothes when I’m 89.»
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«Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.»
«The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable.»
«A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.»
«Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.»
«I never feel age…If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.»
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«Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.»
«The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.»
«In youth we learn; in age we understand.»
«Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.»
«Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.»
«The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.»
«When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.»
«Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.»
«The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.»
«You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.»
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«There are three periods in life: youth, middle age, and "how well you look.»
«In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.»
«Live your life and forget your age.»
«As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...»
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«A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.»
«To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.»
«Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.»
«I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.»
«My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.»
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«It takes a long time to become young.»
«Youth has no age.»
«If I retired, I’d still do exactly what I do. So I may as well not retire. Retire from what? I’d do this for nothing.»
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«It is not length of life, but depth of life.»
«The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.»
«We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.»
«With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.»
«There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.»
«In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.»
«Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.»
«What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.»
«In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.»
«There are onky four kinds of people in this world: Those who have been caregivers; those who currently are caregivers; those who will be caregivers; and those who will need caregivers.»
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«To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.»
«There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.»
«The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.»
«There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.»
«What is an adult? A child blown up by age.»
«In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.»
«There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.»
«Old age and the passage of time teach all things.»
«Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.»
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«I believe in aging gracefully.»
«When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.»
«Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young»
«To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age.»
«The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.»
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«An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.»
«Today is the first day of the rest of your life.»
«We can live forever, a minute at a time.»
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«Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.»
«When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.»
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«Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.»
«Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.»
«If I quit today — I see these people. They spend a whole week planning their haircut. That is not my idea of living. I’m tap dancing to work every day... It doesn’t get better than that.»
«Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.»
«Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.»
«Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.»
«Every man dies. Not every man really lives.»
«We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.»
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