Ageing Quotes - Page 2

• And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting

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• I don't want to be vain or fearful, and I don't think I'll do anything [in terms of plastic surgery], but if I want to do something, I will. From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Perspective, Age

  "ELLE's August cover girl on her latest film, her new outlook, and refusing to settle". Elle Interview, www.elle.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Women are not forgiven for aging.

  Jane Fonda

  Age, Forgiven

  "Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now". "The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, December 22, 1985.

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• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

  Earl Warren

  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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• As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wrinkles, Long, Age

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.79, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• As I am ageing, naturally, how I want my videogames to be played must be changing.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Want, Videogame

  "Shigeru Miyamoto on Mario Galaxy 2, violence in games and the Vitality Sensor". GamesTM Interview, www.gamestm.co.uk.

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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.

  John Mortimer

  Running, Laughing, Dying

  John Mortimer (2000). “The Summer of a Dormouse”

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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• Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

  Martin Firrell

  Privilege, Predicaments

  Article by Caitlin Moran, The Times, June 18, 2007.

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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 the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  Randy Houser

  Change, Believe, School

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• It's not the end of the world to lose.

  Andy Murray

  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, World, Baseball Love

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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  Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

  Brad Pitt

  Over You, Age, Youth

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• I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cancer, Heart, Healing

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Football, Wine, Feelings

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• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

  M.M. Kaye

  Self, Age, Twenties

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Sun in the Morning”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Zoos, Animal, Long

  "The Time Of Our Lives" (Part 1), www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2007.

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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

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK. Life is about change. I don't have anxiety about it, so I'm not running to get Botox. Maybe that will change, but I don't think so. I feel comfortable in my skin and comfortable with ageing, so I think it's okay that I get wrinkles.

  Heidi Klum

  Running, Thinking, Wrinkles

  Self Magazine, www.self.com. December 2010.

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• In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.

  Kim Cattrall

  Thinking, Careers, Interesting

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