You
can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
-- Anouk Aimee
To
keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is
to triumph over old age.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult
chapters in the great art of living.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
| Children
have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed
to imitate them.
-- James
A. Baldwin |  |
We
grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
-- May
L. Becker
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-- Les
Brown
 |
To find joy in work is to
discover the fountain of youth.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973) Our
society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or
be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for
its helpless members.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973) |
Every
time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something
else happens.
-- Lillian Carter
| I am an
old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be,
young, young all your life.
-- Pablo
Casals |
| |
Most people
think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in
the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of
diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through
exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
-- Deepak Chopra |
As
I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less
pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this
rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We've
put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy
it.
-- Frank A. Clark
Senior
Citizens Day - August 21
Intl.
Day of Older Persons
- October 1
