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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Looking Back/Memories

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    “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

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    — Andre Maurois, 20th Century French biographer, novelist and essayist

    “Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”

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    — Morrie Schwartz, author and professor of sociology at Brandeis University, who was immortalized in the book written by his student Mitch Albom entitled Tuesdays With Morrie

    “Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

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    — Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, and Renowned Humanitarian and Activist

    “Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it.”

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    — Gabriel García Márquez, Internationally acclaimed Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner known for his portrayal in his works of “magical realism.”

    “If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?”

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    — Maeve Binchy, Novelist, playwright, and short story writer considered one of Ireland’s best-loved and most recognizable writers at the time of her death in 2012

    “The older I get the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”

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    — Mark Twain, acclaimed American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist