Aging Quotes - Page 32

• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

  Victor Hugo

  Wrinkles, Light, Grace

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• I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Winning

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• You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

  John Powell

  Lying, Men, Yesterday

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• Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

  Eliphas Levi

  Flower, Maturity, Simple

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• A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Flower, Heart, Autumn

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• King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Wonderful, Invisible

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Hair, Two

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• Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.387, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Children, Men

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• How can I die? I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Age

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• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

  Joan Didion

  Events, Matter, Evidence

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.134, Vintage

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• Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

  Pete Egoscue

  Broken, Muscles, Diseased

  Pete Egoscue (2009). “Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain”, p.17, Bantam

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• In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.

  Naoto Kan

  Japan, Average, Population

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• Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

  Jorge Cruise

  Loss, Weight, Taught

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• About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

  Don Herold

  Wicked, Want, Enough

  Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”

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• In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Age, Use

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• Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Age, Youth, Remember

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.205, Reprint Services Corporation

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• When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Young, Old You, Havens

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2011). “Cancer Ward”, p.392, Random House

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• ...an old man is twice a child.

  William Shakespeare

  Children, Men, Old Man

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.842

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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.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Falling In Love, Caring

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• To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  People, Tables, Speak

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• ...there is no old age of the soul.

  Saul Bellow

  Soul, Age, Old Age

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• Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

  Plutarch

  Understanding, Increase, All Things

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