Aging Well Quotes

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192) ~ Victoria Moran

It behooves me to remember as I advance in age that death is an inevitable part of the life cycle rather than a medical failure. ~ Lisa J. Shultz

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's my birthday, by the way, and as of 2:05 this morning (the time of my birth in the middle of a snow storm on the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey) I'm 52 years old. I decided to say that because there's such pressure in our culture for women ... well, for everybody ... to stay perpetually young. And that's never going to change if we (women especially) don't embrace, enjoy, and take pride in each and every age that we pass through. I'm not young, I'm half a century old, and grateful to have made it this far. And I have this to say to the young women coming on behind me: 52 feels pretty damn good! ~ Terri Windling

Our body does get old, but our spirit, never. If we write well enough, we might even live forever. ~ A.A. Patawaran

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be. ~ Justin Smith

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn't. (356) ~ Victoria Moran

•Judge less–or at least later.
•Give new ideas and images a chance.
•Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.
•Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.
•Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260) ~ Victoria Moran

You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong. ~ Morton Shaevitz

[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn't have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268) ~ Victoria Moran

My new deliberate and slower pace has created a higher quality in my experiences. ~ Lisa J. Shultz

How lovely to sit here in the shade
With none of the woes of man and maid
I'm glad I'm not young anymore.....

From the musical Gigi ~ Lerner And Lowe

Your best is good enough. ~ Vivian E. Greenberg

I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual. ~ Sharon Stone

Age is proof of experience, not a disability. ~ Melody Carstairs

I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still relatively healthy and of sound mind. ~ Lisa J. Shultz

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)! ~ Mary Ann Shaffer

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~ Alice Sebold

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right. ~ R.J. Lawrence

(At a health and fitness fair)

Though normally superconfident, I am not prepared for the judgmental stares of the ultrafit. They don't know me and have no idea of my prowess in the boardroom. They're unfamiliar with my shoe collection and unaware that I live in the Dot-Com Palace. And they didn't notice me pulling up in the Caddy. All they can see is how much space I occupy.

With each step I take, I feel cellulite blossoming on my arms, my stomach, my calves. Stop it! I think my chin just multiplied and my thighs inflated. No! Deflate! Deflate! And I'm pretty sure I can see my own ass out of the corner of my eye. Gah! Cut it out!! Am I imagining things, or do my footsteps sound like those of the giant who stomped through the city in the beginning of Underdog? And how did I go from aging-but-still-kind-of-hot ex-sorority girl to horrific, stompy cartoon monster in less than an hour?

My sleek and sexy python sandals have morphed into cloven hooves by the time I reach the line for the race packet. While I wait, the air is abuzz with tales of other marathons while many sets of eyes cut in my direction. Eventually an asshat in a JUST DO IT T-shirt asks me, "How's your training going? ~ Jen Lancaster

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ~ Edna Ferber

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. ~ Jean Paul

I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it. ~ Linda Robinson

The faces of the people were wrinkled with change. Sudden change to which the skin can't possibly conform, faster than the aging of man, faster, even, than their wildest dreams. It stretched their skin thin, as did their bulging bellies, their newfound love of doughnuts, hamburgers, milk and cheese. What was once a once-a-year privilege could now be bought in twelve shops on the same street. ~ Megan Rich

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves. ~ Peter Gavin Hall

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind ~ Timothy Leary

Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young."
"Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back. ~ Andrew Sean Greer

My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take. ~ Maya Goded

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging? ~ Peter Diamandis

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts. ~ Bern Will Brown

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers. ~ Erin Morgenstern

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own! ~ Eugene O'Neill

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different. ~ Michael Lewis

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. ~ Ronnie Shakes

Yes, aging can be tough and rough ... But it is possible to approach the ultimate without staggering and even with a kind of glow, like a radiant sunset. ~ Norman Corwin

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

Childhood's over the moment you know you're going to die. ~ Michael Wincott

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet. ~ Ninon De L'Enclos

The progress of her aging seemed to occur in fits and starts, not so much a matter of physical growth as a deepening self-possession, as if she were coming into ownership of her life. ~ Justin Cronin

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do? ~ Felicity Kendal

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. ~ Robert Browning

Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. ~ Milan Kundera

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~ John Wagner

Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness... ~ Sylvia Plath

We watch our bodies and our brains slow down as younger bodies and brains zip past us, and we just accept it, not realizing there is a whole world offering to sharpen and improve us. We simply need to look for it. ~ Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Uncommon extension of the fear of death. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. ~ Billy Casper

As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog. ~ Ngugi Wa Thiongo

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

To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe. ~ Herman Gorter

Everywhere Frances looked there were children: children sitting gravely behind news desks, controlling traffic, running writers' festivals, taking her blood pressure, managing her taxes, and fitting her bras. ~ Liane Moriarty

Until we're pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything's coming up roses - for me and for you. ~ Gina Barreca

He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall. ~ Lauren Groff