Age Quotes - Page 30

• I don't think age is an ugly process. I think age is a beautiful thing. I love wrinkles. I don't like falling down. If I just wrinkle, I may not touch. If I fall down, I'll lift up.

  Linda Evangelista

  Beautiful, Fall, Thinking

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• Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Growth, Doe, Needs

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1976). “Aging”, Image

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• Sex appeal is in your heart and head. I'll be sexy no matter how old or how my body changes.

  Sonia Braga

  Sexy, Heart, Body

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• For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Letting Go, Art, Real

  Sherwin B. Nuland (2007). “The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being”, p.12, Random House

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• He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Men, Rivers

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• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Majority, Research

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• I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

  Elton John

  Giving Up, Years, Trying

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• Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

  May Sarton

  Light, Ascent, Illness

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• I am luminous with age.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Luminous

  Meridel Le Sueur (1970). “Corn Village: A Selection”

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• It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

  Barbara Mertz

  Youth, Easier, Counterfeit

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• I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, Add, Next

  "Nicholas Cage talks National Treasure!". Press conference in Los Angeles, movieweb.com. November 16, 2004.

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• That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Breathing Space, Giving, Purpose

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.601, Head of Zeus

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• Years do not always make age.

  George Sand

  Years

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.93

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• Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

  Charles Lamb

  Writing, Damn, Antiquity

  Charles Lamb (2013). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.381, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Too Late, Old You, Knows

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

  B. F. Skinner

  Country, Enjoy, Prepared

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• Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

  Brad Pitt

  Math, Youth, Trade

  "Brad Pitt owes a debt to Benjamin Button" by Reed Johnson, articles.latimes.com. December 26, 2008.

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• We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

  Laura Linney

  Thinking, People, World

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• I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

  Robert Evans

  World, Morality, Remember

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• Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

  Russell Kirk

  Spiritual, Memories, Simple

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• Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my own devising, making things, experimenting, and planning for the future. I had read of Thomas Alva Edison and other successful inventors, and the idea of making an invention appealed to me as one of the few available means to accomplish a change in one's economic status, while at the same time bringing to focus my interest in technical things and making it possible to make a contribution to society as well.

  Chester Carlson

  School, Mean, Successful

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• To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Balance, Green

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Beauty, Heart, Educated

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• I'm at an age where I think more about food than I do about sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Inspirational, Sex, Thinking

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• What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Greek

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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