Aging Quotes - Page 2

• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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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.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Age

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  Pablo Picasso

  Age, Twenties, Might

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• I'm not afraid of aging.

  Shelley Duvall

  Birthday, Age, Not Afraid

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  We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

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• We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

  Peter Gavin Hall

  Age

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• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

  George Sand

  Funny, Wisdom, Mistake

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• You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

  Timothy Leary

  Change, Positive Thinking, Mind

  "Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People" by Darrin Zeer, (p. 52), 2000.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Age

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?

  Arthur Ashe

  Judging, Use, Way

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

  William James

  Giving Up, Age, Strive

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• The golden age is before us, not behind us.

  William Shakespeare

  Happy Birthday, Afterlife, Age

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Eyelashes, Long

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• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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