Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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

Turner, Tina

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

16.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

18.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Spark, Muriel

19.

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

20.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Burke, Billie

21.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

25.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

27.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

28.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

29.

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

30.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Byron, Lord

35.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

40.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

43.

It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

44.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Bible

46.

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

47.

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

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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

Buck, Pearl S.