Elder Quotes

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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

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