Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Shakespeare, William

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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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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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!

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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)

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Turner, Tina

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

Burke, Billie

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

Powell, Anthony

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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.

Lessing, Doris

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What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Greier, John

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.