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I
live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert
Einstein
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Of
all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture,
the assumption that aging means decline and poor health
is probably the deadliest.
-- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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Those
who love deeply never grow old; they may die of
old age, but they die young.
-- Benjamin
Franklin |
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Aging
is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity
and strength.
-- Betty
Friedan
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"Resolve
to be tender with the young, compassionate with the
aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life
you will have been all of these."
-- Dr. Robert H. Goddard (American rocket engineer
1882-1945)
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It was once said that the moral test
of government is how that government treats
those who are in the dawn of life, the children;
those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly;
and those who are in the shadows of life, the
sick, the needy and the handicapped.
-- Hubert Humphrey
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"I
can think of no better way of redeeming this
tragic world today than love and laughter. Too
many of the young have forgotten how to laugh,
and too many of the elders have forgotten how
to love. Would not our lives be lightened if
only we could all learn to laugh more easily
at ourselves and to love one another."
-- Theodore
Hesburgh
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Senior
Citizens Day - August
21
Intl.
Day of Older Persons
- October 1
