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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

    — Audrey Hepburn, Legendary British actress of stage and screen

    “You only need four things in your life at my age: a doctor you can trust, friends you can lean on, a sense of humor, and a good hairdresser.”

    — An 80-something patient’s quote from a recent blog post entitled Five Tricks for Aging Gracefully written by Dr. Lucy McBride. Dr McBride is a writer and primary care physician in Washington DC, who publishes a regular newsletter entitled Are You Okay?

    “I’m very much in acceptance of what I look like and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is. You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean….

    — Jamie Lee Curtis, Academy Award-winning actress, producer and children’s book author

    “I used to be young but I got over it.”

    — Patricia Prijatel, the E.T. Meredith Distinguished Professor Emerita at Drake University, author and a health writer for numerous national print and online publications. This quote was from her recent post in Psychology Today.

    “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

    — Charles Dickens, British author, journalist, and social commentator who wrote some of the most celebrated novels of all time, including Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and A Tale of Two Cities.

    “You can’t be the kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

    — Tina Fey, American actress, comedienne, writer and producer