21 Quotes on Aging Well

What’s the secret to aging gracefully? We can’t stop the clock, but we can keep our spirits young with humor, gratitude, and creativity.
The following quotes from people like Sophia Loren, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mark Twain will help you see the upside of the golden years. They prove that love, humor, and wisdom are ageless.

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"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
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"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
-- Mark Twain

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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."
-- Doris Lessing

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"There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt."
-- Author Unknown

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"Old age is no place for sissies."
-- Bette Davis

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"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
--Betty Friedan

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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age."
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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"We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."
--Deepak Chopra

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"The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out."
-- Scott Adams

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"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."
--Ben Franklin

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"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
--Eubie Blake, age 100

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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth 'a whole I planned, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid.'
--Robert Browning

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"Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer."
--William Holden

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"I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left."
--Voltaire

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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
--Satchel Paige

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"Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure."
--George Santayana

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"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing."
--George Bernard Shaw

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"It's never too late to have a fling
For autumn is just as nice as spring
And it's never too late to fall in love."
--Sandy Wilson
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"For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest."
--Hasidic saying

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"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
--Chili Davis

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Love to you, my youthful-thinking ones!

Jacques