A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed
his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in
his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and
slept when I should have sat up and worried.
-- Dorothea Kent
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Old
age is not a disease - it is strength and
survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes
and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
--
Maggie Kuhn
There
must be a goal at every stage of life! There
must be a goal!
--
Maggie Kuhn
Old
age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal
is to say or do at least one outrageous thing
every week.
--
Maggie Kuhn
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The
great secret that all old people share is that you
really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years.
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And
that, of course, causes great confusion.
-- Doris Lessing
"There
is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life and the lives
of people you love. When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren
You
are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;
as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
-- Douglas MacArthur
Age
is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
-- Miriam Makeba
Old
age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked
because they would take too long.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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If
you associate enough with older people who do
enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in
any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of
continuity and of the possibility for a full
life.
-- Margaret
Mead
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Don't
just count your years, make your years count.
-- Ernest Meyers
We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberated
by it.
-- Stu Mittleman
Preparation for old age should begin not later than
one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until
65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
--Arthur E. Morgan
I
never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't
have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
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
One of the most important phases of maturing is that
of growth from self-centering to an understanding
relationship to others. A person is not mature until
he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself
as one among others and to do unto those others as
he would have them do to him.
-- Harry A. Overstreet
Live your life and forget your age.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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.
-- Ralph B. Perry
He
who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the
pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite
disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Senior
Citizens Day - August
21
Intl.
Day of Older Persons
- October 1
