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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”

    — Kurt Vonnegut, Renowned American Writer Of Darkly Comic And Iconic Novels, Plays, Essays And Short Fiction

    “Your body is never “out of shape”: it is always in a shape created by how you have moved up until this very moment.”

    — Katy Bowman, An American Biomechanist, Award-Winning Author, and Movement Expert Who Teaches Movement and Exercise For A More Rewarding and Healthy Life

    “When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love and connection for the important people in my life.”

    — Brené Brown, American Author, Professor and StoryTeller Whose Work Focuses On Themes Of Courage, Vulnerability, Shame And Empathy.

    “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.”

    — Sydney Smith, Nineteenth Century English Cleric, Writer and Noted Wit

     “We’re all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.”

    — Madeleine M. Kunin, 3-Term Vermont Governor, Ambassador, and Author

    “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”

    — Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death in 2018.