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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Happiness/Positive Aging

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    “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

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    — Babe Ruth, Legendary early 20th-century American baseball player

    “Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.”

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    — Samuel Butler, A Victorian- era English novelist, essayist, and critic, and author of such enduring works as Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh

    “It annoys me when people say, ‘Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!’ Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be…

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    — Susan Moon, an American writer, editor, and teacher of Zen Buddhism. Her books include This Is Getting Old: Zen Thoughts on Aging with Humor and Dignity and Alive Until You’re Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch

    “You will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” 

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    — Wayne Gretzky, Former Canadian ice hockey player, considered to be one of the all-time greatest players in the National Hockey League

    “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

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    — Amelia Earhart, 20th-century American aviation pioneer and women’s rights activist, whose plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean as she attempted to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe

    “I believe we’re mainly on our own in our last phase of life and need to create our own personal reason for being.”

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    — Judith Viorst, beloved American writer and humorist, known for her children’s books, humorous poetry, commentary on the various stages of life, and author of the recently published book, Making the Best of What’s Left: When We’re Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered