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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “At some point, you just have to accept who you are and apologize as necessary.”

    — Robert Brault, American freelance writer for over 40 years

    “ If we know what we truly regret, we know what we truly value.”

    — Daniel Pink, New York Times best-selling author of the new book, The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

    “There’s never been a better time to be an older person.”

    — Esme Fuller-Thomson, Director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for Life Course and Aging

    “Experience is as beautiful as youth.”

    — Erica Jong, American novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her provocative book on female sexuality, Fear of Flying.

    “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”

    — Montesquieu, one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment who is considered the inventor of the modern concept of the separation of powers, highly influential on the framers of the US Constitution

    “If you still have passion and if you haven’t become cynical and you’ve remained open to life, then no matter how old you are chronologically, you’re still young.”

    — Jane Fonda, Academy award-winning American actress, political activist, and environmentalist