Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Age and aging

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

Temple, Sir William

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Ullman, Samuel

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John