You
can only perceive real beauty in a person as they
get older.
-- Anouk Aimee
To
keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly,
cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,
and one of the most difficult chapters in the great
art of living.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Children
have never been very good at listening to
their elders, but they have never failed to
imitate them.
-- James
A. Baldwin
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but
more like ourselves.
-- May L. Becker
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream
a new dream.
-- Les Brown
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To
find joy in work is to discover the fountain
of youth.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973)
Our
society must make it right and possible for
old people not to fear the young or be deserted
by them, for the test of a civilization is
the way that it cares for its helpless members.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973)
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Every
time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going
to the grave, something else happens.
-- Lillian Carter
I
am an old man, but in many senses a very young man.
And this is what I want you to be, young, young all
your life.
-- Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973)
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Most
people think that aging is irreversible and
we know that there are mechanisms even in
the human machinery that allow for the reversal
of aging, through correction of diet, through
anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from
the body, through exercise, through yoga and
breathing techniques, and through meditation.
-- Deepak
Chopra
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We've
put more effort into helping folks reach old age than
into helping them enjoy it.
-- Frank A. Clark
Of
all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture,
the assumption that aging means decline and poor health
is probably the deadliest.
-- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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Those
who love deeply never grow old; they may die
of old age, but they die young.
-- Benjamin
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Aging
is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity
and strength.
-- Betty
Friedan
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"Resolve
to be tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life
you will have been all of these."
-- Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer
1882-1945)
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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
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"I
can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic
world today than love and laughter. Too many of the
young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of
the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our
lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh
more easily at ourselves and to love one another."
-- Theodore Hesburgh quotes
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed
his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in
his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and
slept when I should have sat up and worried.
-- Dorothea Kent
Old
age is not a disease - it is strength and
survivorship, triumph over all kinds of
vicissitudes and disappointments, trials
and illnesses.
--
Maggie Kuhn
There
must be a goal at every stage of life! There
must be a goal!
--
Maggie Kuhn
Old
age is an excellent time for outrage. My
goal is to say or do at least one outrageous
thing every week.
--
Maggie Kuhn
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The
great secret that all old people share is that you
really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years.
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And
that, of course, causes great confusion.
-- Doris Lessing
"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 quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
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
Age
is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
-- Miriam Makeba
Old
age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked
because they would take too long.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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If
you associate enough with older people who
do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away
in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense
of continuity and of the possibility for a
full life.
-- Margaret
Mead
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Don't
just count your years, make your years count.
-- Ernest Meyers
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberated
by it.
-- Stu Mittleman
Preparation for old age should begin not later than
one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until
65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
--Arthur E. Morgan
I
never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't
have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for
they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience
which knows that though one were to cry it in the
streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to
one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's
secrets are one's own!
-- Eugene O'Neill
One of the most important phases of maturing is that
of growth from self-centering to an understanding
relationship to others. A person is not mature until
he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself
as one among others and to do unto those others as
he would have them do to him.
-- Harry A. Overstreet
Live your life and forget your age.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should
rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings
of experience and the firm line of character.
-- Ralph B. Perry
He
who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the
pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite
disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright
the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears
more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less
mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter
as we approach the end.
-- Jean Paul Richter
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"To
be happy in this world, especially when youth
is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not
merely an isolated individual whose day will
soon be over, but part of the stream of life
flowing on from the first germ to the remote
and unknown future."
-- Bertrand
Russell
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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 (1804 - 1876)
"Old
places and old persons in their turn, when spirit
dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which
youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom
that come from long perspectives and broad foundations"
-- George Santayana (Spanish born American Philosopher,
Poet and Humanist )
Before
you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should
endeavor to understand him.
-- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
"Those
who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives,
and prepare for their old age a miserable grave."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
With
age come the inner, the higher life. Who
would be forever young, to dwell always
in externals?
--
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct
of life, as not to receive new information from age
and experience.
-- Terence
Whether
sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's
heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like
appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of
living. In the center of your heart and my heart there
is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages
of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men
and from the infinite, so long are you young.
-- Samuel Ullman
The
longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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