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

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

10.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

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

Cope, Wendy

14.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

16.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

17.

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

Chopra, Deepak

18.

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

Updike, John

19.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

21.

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

Tholuck

22.

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

Hope, Bob

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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

24.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

25.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

27.

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

28.

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

40.

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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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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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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Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

45.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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

47.

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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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.