"I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles." ~Edward Grey
"I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation." ~Erica Jong
"I'm 72 and my perfect age is now." ~Diana, Balłet Dancer
"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely." ~Camille Pissarro
"I choose the thoughts that make me feel comfortable with growing older." ~Louise Hay
"I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates." ~T.S. Elito (1888-1965)
"I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.“ ~Rush Limbaugh
"I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged."
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"I look forward to a healthy old age because I take loving care of my body now." ~Louise Hay
"I look forward to being older., when what you look like become less and less an issue and what you are is the point." ~Susan Sarandon
"I love getting older. My understanding deepens. I can see what connects. I can weave stories of experience and apply them. I can integrate the the lessons. Things simply become more and more fascinating. Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms." ~Victoria Erickson
"I love my age. Old enough to know better. Young enough not to care. Experienced enough to do it right." ~Angela Basset
"I never forget how young I am now that I'm getting old." ~Leah C. Dancel, 11 October 2017
"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!" ~Camille Pissarro
“If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.” .~James Garfield
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." ~Elizabeth Arden
"In an aged man appears ripeness of wisdom: it is the oldest sandal-tree which emits the most fragrance." ~Sataka
"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"In order to become old and wise, we need to have been young and foolish." ~Anon
"In youth we believe everybody but nobody believes us. In old age we believe nobody but everybody believes us." ~Moritz (Moses) Gottlieb Saphir
"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” ~Terry Pratchett
"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." ~George Sand
"It is autumn; not without.. but within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It's direction at a young age to work to become wealthy, to determine in the age the bones to pain to the wealth to enjoy too much" -Simon Freigericht
"It is not the length of life, but the depth." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It remains a great challenge for caretakers, helping our elderly loved ones experience life that, no matter the constraints and limitations, no matter the place they live, is purposeful and enriching." ~Barry Eisenberg, Lessons on living from my 106-year-old Aunt Doris
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ~Hubert Humphrey
"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." ~Ausonius
"Life humbles you so deeply as you age." ~Daily Vibes
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Live your life and forget your age.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
"Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away, and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind. Be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again. When you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, are afraid of the aloneness that you trust, and don't expect any understanding. But believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
"Meaningfulness is central to what we yearn for, and this doesn’t stop just because we get old." ~Dr. Atul Gawande
"Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning." ~Bob Hope
"No matter my age, now is the time to live it up, to acknowledge my self-worth." ~Louise Hay
"No one is ever too old to know better." ~Margaret Preston
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Old age come at a bad time. When you finally know everything, you start to forget everything you know." ~Anon
"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice." ~Marcus Porcius Cato
"Old age is frail. It is as dainty as a crystal vessel." ~Leah C. Dancel, 2 August 2014
"Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it." ~Crow
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." ~Leon Trotsky
"Older than my years, an old soul, timeless soldier of war- I was made to carry pain more than the others."
©Estelle Cortes
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.” ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher, (1879-1958)
"Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a ball game, a television set. It may be good once in a while, but it certainly is not good all the time. Our own faculties, our imagination, our memory, the ability to do things with our mind and our hands–they need to be exercised. If we become too passive, we get dissatisfied." ~Maria von Trapp
"Our age has robbed millions of simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to simplicity of wisdom." ~William Robertson Davies
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." ~Jean Paul Richter
"Pain and discomfort go hand in hand with getting older. Try not to dwell on them but accept them as a part of the cycle of life we’re all going through. Try to minimize them in your mind. They are not who you are, they are something that life added to you. If they become your entire focus, you lose sight of the person you used to be." ~Greg Howard
"Seek ye counsel of the aged, for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have heartened to the voices of life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them ." ~Khalil Gibran
“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.” ~Anon on Proverbs
"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The beauty of being old is knowing that you did not get there alone and that you have a chance to get older." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo
"The great secret that all old people share is that you haven’t really changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.” ~Doris Lessing
"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." ~Madeleine L'Engle
"The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind." ~William James
"The heart has no wrinkles. The soul has no age." ~The Journey Home
“The human spirit does not know what old age is. As the body of the outer person ages, the inner person makes a passage into a new life.” ~Emanuel Swedenborg
"The key to aging is to not mourn what's lost but to celebrate what remains." ~Marc Middleton
“The music that touches you in your youth is magnified as you get older. Each record can be a virtual time machine - all you need is to hear a second or two and you go back to that place and time when you first heard it. It’s a brilliant feeling when music touches you so profoundly and stays with you through time.” ~ Rob Halford
"The old one are still the best. Old jeans, old boots, old friends, old tunes and old times." ~from Birthday Wishes dot Expert
"The older I get the more I realise I don't want to be around drama, conflict or stress. I want a cosy home, good food, and to be surrounded by happy people." ~Anon
"The older you get, the more quiet you become." ~Daily Vibes
"The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realise how much nonsense you've wasted time on." ~Keep Quotes
"The older you get, the more you realize
It's not about material things, pride, or ego.
It's about what your heart beats for."
~R.A.
"The older you get, the more you realise that it is okay to live a life others don't understand." ~FB/Heaveness
"The sad part about getting older is that no one can see you're still young on the inside." ~Beautiful Italy
"The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude." ~Gabriel García Márquez
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." ~Lucille Ball
"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy." ~Oscar Wilde
"The three ages of man: youth, middle age and ‘my word you do look well’." ~June Whitfield
"The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that. Finally." ~Elizabeth Berg
"The truth of the matter is our metabolism does slow with age, our body does lose muscle mass and bone density over time and our energy level does diminish over the passing years. However none of these necessarily prevent everyone from doing the things that help us stay fit. Age alone is not the factor that prevents us from walking or from enjoying a healthy diet of more water, fruits and vegetables." ~Richard Franz (Source: The Lies We Believe and the Truths We Reject By Richard Franz | Tuesday, January 20, 2015
"The wisdom of old age: knowing how to exchange immediate victories for lasting conquests." ~Paulo Coelho
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." ~William Feather
"There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen." ~Dana Reinhardt
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." ~Sophia Loren
"There’s more real beauty as we age, the beauty of wisdom, maturity, and growing in grace and knowledge that will never tarnish or disappear with time." ~Mirella Macatula
"There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow." ~Edith Wharton
"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." ~Virginia Woolfe
"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart." ~Caryn Leschen
"This is the aging process worth celebrating. Chronological age marks how long you’ve lived, but emotional age reflects what you’ve done with the time." ~Judith Sills
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." ~Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To get better with age, get spiritually fit." ~from Our Daily Bread
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.” ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." ~Bernard M. Baruch
"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."~Karl von Bonstetten
"Today is the oldest you've ever been, yet the youngest you'll ever be, so enjoy this day while it lasts." ~Anon
"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age." ~George Sand
"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten." ~Aldous Huxley
"We are always the same age inside." ~Gertrude Stein
"'We are always the same age inside'. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious; you can only live it once." ~Richard Gere
"We're growing freer … not older." ~Anon
"We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it." ~Stu Mittleman
"We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age." ~Anthony Robbins
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~George Bernard Shaw
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair." ~Charles Lamb
"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals." ~Samuel Beckett
"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body." ~Dr. Hans Selye
"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." ~Victor Hugo
"Where children are, there is the golden age." ~Novalis
"Whether one is twenty, forty, sixty or eighty; whether one has succeeded, failed, or just muddled along -
Life Begins Each Morning!" ~L.M. Hodges
"With age comes beauty and character." ~House of Fifty
"With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding." ~Sandra Lake
"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." ~Douglas MacArthur
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."~C. S. Lewis
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." ~Woody Allen (1935-)
"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." ~George Burns
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." ~Michael Pritchard
"You're never too old to grow up." ~Shirley Conran on Maturity
"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." ~Bob Hope
"You might be getting older, but you don't have to get old". ~from Starts at 60 Style
"Youth is a state of the soul - nothing to do with age - everything to do with attitude." ~Anon, 1998/mpw
VERSE
"And though age and infirmity
overtake me, and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful
for life, and for time's olden
memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening's
twilight find me gentle still."
~Max Erhmann
(The Desiderata of Happiness)
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OTHERS
"Blessed are those who get to get old and have wrinkles. Grey hair and wrinkles they say are marks of wisdom." ~Jollee A. Baeyens
"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life." ~Jean Paul
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.” ~Simone de Beauvoir
"I speak the truth, not as much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older." ~Catherine Bowen
"In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burning into baking asphalt." ~Alyson Richman
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." ~Charles Schulz
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." ~Jean Paul Richter
"Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be." ~Lauren Hutton
"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature." ~Albert Einstein
"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." ~Martin Buxbaum
"Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both." ~Gabrielle Zevin
"Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age." ~Vera Nazarian
"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy." ~Henri Frederic Amiel
“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.” ~L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables)
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities." ~Khalil Gibran
"Time really does seem to fly as we get older, that's because we"ve forgotten to stop for a while to enjoy the time." ~Steven Aitchison
"We all go through phases of aging as part of our existence. Old age is the ultimate pinnacle of life. Our duty is to be thankful to our Creator and to appreciate all of His goodness and mercy. Shabbat shalom!" ~Leah C. Dancel, April 17, 2021
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"When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not." ~Yoda
"When you're young, thunderstorms seem scary. Like the sky is angry at you. But now that I'm older, something about its roar soothes me; it's comforting to know that even nature needs to scream sometimes." ~Anon
"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." ~George Burns
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~Franz Kafka
VERSE
Aches and pains are here to stay,
They seem to change day by day,
The list of ailments seems to grow,
As the body starts to slow.
You can't be young, weak or prissy;
Getting old is not for sissies.
~Anon
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