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
