Aging Quotes
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
The water doesn't know how old you are.
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.
I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.
How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.
Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.
I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.
