Aging Quotes - Page 34

• My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

  Amy Waldman

  Children, Issues, Parent

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• No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Inspirational, Life, Losing

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray (1948). “How to conquer your handicaps”, Indianapolis

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• We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

  Atul Gawande

  Failing, Experiments

  "Atul Gawande: 'We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 7, 2014.

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• The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

  Peter Bergen

  Dad, Men, Years

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I think the most important thing is to keep active, and to hope that your mind stays active.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Mind, Important

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• As a nation, we have never embraced aging.

  Denise Lewis

  Nations

  "10 secrets of the anti-aging industry" by Elizabeth O'Brien, www.marketwatch.com. February 13, 2014.

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• People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.

  Ogden Nash

  Eye, Men, People

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

  Evelyn Lauder

  Knowing, Healthy, Age

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• Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

  Charlie W Shedd

  Grandparent, Grandfather, Age

  Charlie W Shedd (1976). “Grandparents: Then God Created Grandparents and It Was Very Good”, Doubleday

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• Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Dream, Greatness, Age

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• Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Skills, Age, Overcoming

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• The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.

  Forrest Church

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Love and Death". Book by Forrest Church, www.washingtonpost.com. September 2008.

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• Calcification is the hardening of body tissues by calcium salts or deposits. Although calcification itself is not considered a disease, it has been shown to be a significant contributing factor in nearly every known illness and aging condition, including heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, chronic inflammation, arthritis, cancers, cataracts, eczema, psoriasis, and even wrinkles.

  David Wolfe

  Cancer, Heart, Wrinkles

  David Wolfe (2013). “Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

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• You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Joy, Suffering

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• If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

  Andrew Niccol

  Technology, Forever, Genes

  Source: collider.com

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• Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.

  Laozi

  Roots, Body, Way

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• In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Mind, Age

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• I will stay in my bed!

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Bed

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• Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender.

  Albert Brooks

  Fun, Glasses, Hands

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2011

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• I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Mirrors, Hatred, Age

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.

  Joan D. Chittister

  World, This World, Finished

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• There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Giving, Age, Acting

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• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

  Nancy A. Collins

  Wisdom, Powerful, Grief

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• People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.

  Rita Moreno

  Attitude, Numbers, People

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• Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

  Paul Leautaud

  Jobs, Growing, Full Time Jobs

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