Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Depardieu, Gerard

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Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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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 into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.