Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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

Best Quotes about Age and aging

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mittleman, Stu

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

Billings, Josh

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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Updike, John

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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

Hope, Bob

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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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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The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Stael, Germaine De

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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

Fonda, Jane

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

Tholuck

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Day, Doris

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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