As in all other events in our lives, the major impact of aging isn't so much what actually happens to us, especially since it is one of those things that are beyond our control.
Rather the significant factor is what we think is happening to us and what we think about what we think is happening us.
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: age aging attitude thought getting old elderly physical changes of aging optimism senior citizens young at heart

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: aging marriage

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
Lillian Carter, spoken when she was in her eighties Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J. M. Barrie The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: death aging

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging attitude

Every age has its beautiful moments.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: aging age growing old

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

You may search my time-worn face,
You'll find a merry eye that twinkles.
I am NOT an old lady
Just a little girl with wrinkles!
Edythe E. Bregnard Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude

We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Mary Lamberton Becker Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging age change self-knowledge

As the fruit ripens, so does man mature; after many rains, suns and blows.
Jose de la Luz y Caballero The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: aging growth maturity

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: enthusiasm aging old attitude

And He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age.
William Shakespeare (As You Like It) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: aging comfort spirituality god

With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to
Elizabeth Cady Stanton The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: aging maturity growth

I will never be an old man. To me, old
Bernard M. Baruch The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: aging age youth attitude

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Samuel Butler The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: life age aging experience

Let us not look at ourselves but onwards, onwards to the ideal life of a man, and take strength from the leaf and signs of the field. Let us labor to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as spreading oak gives more shelter.
Richard Jeffries The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: selflessness aging perspective

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction--I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging looks attitude appearances

It's not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson Slowing Down in a Speeded Up World
Categories: aging life attitude

Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details."
Katherine Hepburn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude wellness health

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: aging age youth attitude childlike

Age gives good advice when it is no longer able to give a bad example.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age aging advice counsel example elder

It is magnificent to grow old if one
Harry Emerson Fosdick Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging attitude young at heart

Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar,
Pope John XXII Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging growth experience wisdom

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: aging maturation wisdom maturity

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging youth life challenges

Old age is that night of life, as night
Anne Sophie Swetchine Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: age aging wisdom experience attitude

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.
George Sand Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging focus purpose meaning

I could be well content
To entertain the lag-end of my life
With quiet hours.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: leisure aging solitude relaxation

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: life time joy happiness aging

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: aging time experience memories

Nothing flows faster than the years, daughters
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Categories: time aging present appreciation

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore How to Want What You Have
Categories: time aging age hurry life

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katherine Graham The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: age aging contribution to society purpose

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Abraham Sutzkever Up Words for Down Days
Categories: young at heart attitude aging

In youth we learn, in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: aging maturity growth wisdom

Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Greek proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age experience aging learning wisdom

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
Theodore Francis Green The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: age aging feeling growing old attitude

Old age is ripeness.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age aging mature maturity wisdom

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: life learning growth time aging

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging growth memory memories remembrances

For the unlearned, old age is winter;
The Talmud Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: education knowledge experience wisdom aging

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Kafka Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: aging beauty vision youth life

Would you be young again?
So would not I--
One tear to memory given,
Onward I'd hie.
Caroline Oliphant Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude focus growth wisdom

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: future growth aging maturity attitude

Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: life living aging growth happiness

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in the old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Compact Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: aging purpose fulfillment meaning of life

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair...
``To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
Categories: friendship relationships loneliness aging life

One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Words for All Occasions
Categories: aging wisdom error mistake forgiveness

The secret of what life's all about
Was answered by the sages:
Life's about one day at a time
No matter what your age is.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life age aging time present balance

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time life aging age balance priorities

Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
Shirley Lord Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude self-confidence self-esteem wisdom

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgement.
Liz Carpenter Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude flexibility tolerance acceptance

The advice of the aged will not mislead you.
Welsh proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: advise aging elders wisdom mentor

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Lydia M. Child Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging growth self-improvement self-esteem self-confidence

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying.
And this same flower that smiles
today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time aging life fulfillment happiness

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fuldheim Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: youth age aging wisdom growth self-knowledge

With age comes wisdom.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age wisdom aging elder elderly experience

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom, but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
Edward Young The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: age aging wisdom self-awareness thought personal growth

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: wasting time aging priorities balance busyness

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth wherever possible.
Kathe Kollwitz The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: aging maturity retirement meaning purpose fulfillment

It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased. An originally educated judgment grows broader and gentler as the river of life widens out to the everlasting sea.
Margaret Gatty Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: spirit wisdom knowledge understanding age aging growth

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Mme. de Stael Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging grace growth self-confidence self-esteem salvation

For age and want save while you may, no morning sun lasts a whole day.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age poverty retirement aging save investment planning

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought aging youth beauty love nature

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: learning aging life living beginning curiosity

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus you may feel your pulse.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: morning spring nature life aging attitude age wellness

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 this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Sophia Loren Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging attitude abilities skill imagination relationships friendships

Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind.
Ethel Percy Audrus Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: aging age self-improvement self-knowledge volunteerism ministry sharing giving

The aged in council, the young in action.
Danish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age aging elder elderly advise counsel action youth

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe;
He still remember'd that he once was young.
Dr. John Armstrong The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging respect leadership perspective virtue wisdom memory

Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
Death closes all; but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Compact Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: aging retirement meaning of life fulfillment purpose usefulness

What is always speaking silently is the body.
Norman Brown Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: body physical exercise aging health wellness self-awareness

Now in my later years I can harvest the wisdom of my childhood. I treasure those precious roots knowing that I have grown wings and I must move on. I must let go.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: aging elderly wisdom adulthood growth self-knowledge self-awareness

I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line?
Diogenes The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: excellence leadership maturity aging purpose fulfillment meaning

Expressing your enthusiasms can add years of creative life to your time on earth.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life aging fulfillment enthusiasm vision talents action

As we age, it becomes all too easy to get stuck in a routine. And often, our routine is accompanied by an assumption that education ends when we finish school, and that our mental and physical performance will inevitably decline.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: age aging routine thought brain wellness potential mentality

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging young at heart senior citizen old elders elderly attitude

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.
Robert Fulghum in the essay "Pay Attention" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: aging wisdom body soul spirit life balance wellness

Our society automatically scraps people just like old automobiles. It's the Detroit syndrome, but the latest models are not always the best.
Margaret Kuhn Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging senior citizens elders elderly growth strength wisdom

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato The Republic
Categories: sensuality conversation thought wisdom aging body age friendship debate talk

One should never count the years--one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I am glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Helen Keller Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging senior citizens elders elderly growth interests curiosity discovery

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth--and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up--that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Simple Abundance
Categories: life age aging death meaning fulfillment living priorities priority balance

But sage experience only comes with years.
Samuel Coleridge, from the poem Quae Nocent Docent (In Christ's Hospital Book) The Portable Coleridge
Categories: wisdom knowledge mature maturity age aging experience learning time growth

Many people assume that mental and physical abilities necessarily decline with age, that we are, after age twenty-five, losing significant brain capacity on a daily basis.
In reality, the average brain is capable of improving with age.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: age aging learning education self-improvement growth thought mental processes senility

You are as young as you feel after trying to prove it.
Lou Erickson Words for All Occasions
Categories: mid-life crisis male menopause age aging change vanity conceit pride

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age aging youth teaching leadership mentorship wisdom respect elders elderly parents

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: life aging hate time priorities attitude thoughts blame anger mad recriminations

Living to a ripe old age may not be one of humanity's great blessings, but to live with gusto at a ripe old age is to discover not only what life is about, but what it's always been about.
Joe Klock Like klockwork-- the whimsy, wit, and sometime wisdom of a Key Largo curmudgeon
Categories: attitude age aging elderly senior citizens young at heart quality of life enthusiasm

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederick Amiel Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging old senior citizens elders elderly wisdom understanding development growth change self-improvement

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Phillip James Bailey The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging time gratitude attitude value action work effort life meaning fulfillment purpose

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations.
George Santayana Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging elderly aged spirituality balance wisdom growth self-improvement perspective vision education

Aging is a life-spanning process of growth and development from birth to death. Old age is an integral part of the whole, bringing fulfillment and self-actualization. I regard aging as a triumph, a result of strength and survivorship.
Margaret Kuhn Words for All Occasions
Categories: aging age growing old elderly senior citizen growth change self-improvement strength courage bravery

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-interest, fear, despair -- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Watterson Lowe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: attitude beliefs authenticity aging enthusiasm worry doubt selfishness fear afraid despair

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life
Categories: purpose goal fulfillment aging regret future choices regrets change self-improvement personal growth

We grow too soon old and too late smart.
Pennsylvania Dutch saying Words for All Occasions
Categories: age aging senior citizens elders elderly wisdom knowledge common sense growth education learning understanding

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, and then only, are you grown old.
General Douglas MacArthur Words for All Occasions
Categories: thought young at heart attitude optimism hope beauty courage love strength bravery pessimism cynicism age aging old

Every day I learn more than I teach,

Virginia Church Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: education experience growth aging attitude self-improvement growth