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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “I’ve always said that I will never let an old person into my body. That is, I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Don’t program yourself to breakdown as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable.”

    — Wayne Dyer, American self-help author and motivational speaker

     “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.”

    — Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning African American Baptist Minister, and Civil Rights Advocate and Icon

    “For every moment you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”

    — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and philosopher

    “I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is “anti.” Aging is as natural as a baby’s softness and scent. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes, and aging.”

    — Jamie Lee Curtis, American Actress and Author

    “Do something nice for somebody that needs it. If you have someone who needs a phone call, make the phone call. If somebody needs a visit, go make that visit.”

    — Historian Larry Cook, speaking this past weekend in Plains, Georgia, as crowds gathered in anticipation of the final days of President Jimmy Carter. Cook called this “The Carter Challenge.” (as quoted in The Atlanta Constitution)

    “After a while, you just don’t do things you don’t wanna do – that’s the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won’t be a waste of time.”

    — Nick Cave, 65-year-old Australian musician, author, actor, and screenwriter