Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

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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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Chopra, Deepak

10.

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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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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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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

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bleasdale, Alan

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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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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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.

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

Paul, Jean

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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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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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

34.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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

Burke, Billie

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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

Stael, Germaine De