Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

- Chopra, Deepak

Best Quotes about Age and aging

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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.

Perry, Ralph B.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Becker, May L.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

10.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

11.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

12.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

13.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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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

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

19.

I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

20.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

22.

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

23.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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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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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

28.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

30.

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

Brown, Captain J.

31.

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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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

34.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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

Vaughan, Henry

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Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

40.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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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.

Mead, Margaret

45.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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.