Seventeen Quotes About Aging

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Aging isn’t always easy, but it can be extraordinarily beautiful. If you can learn to appreciate the small victories, revel in daily minutia, and develop a healthy sense of insouciance, then you just might experience old age as a revolution. Here are a few quotes from people who understand the importance of living your best life, at any age.

1. “As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.”

– Margaret Deland

2. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

– Abraham Lincoln

3. “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright

 

4. “May you live all the days of your life.”

– Jonathon Swift

5. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come”

– William Shakespeare

6. “Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself.”

– Victoria Moran

7. “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.”

– Robert Browning

8. “Growing old is humbling, and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.”

– Kilroy J. Oldster

9. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”

– Mark Twain

10. “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”

–George Bernard Shaw

11. “It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.”

– Jules Renard

12. “The older I get, the less I know. It’s wonderful–it makes the world so spacious.”

– Swami Chetanananda

 

13. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

– Les Brown

14. “Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

– Maya Angelou

15. “Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.”

– Phoebe Cary

 

16. “When An Old Person Dies, a Library Burns to The Ground.”

– African Proverb


17. “Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint.”

~ Anna Halprin