Welcome, dear reader, to a journey through the wisdom and wit of the ages on the topic of growing older. They say that age is just a number, but as we advance through the years, we begin to realize that it's a number that comes with a whole lot of experiences, challenges, and changes. But fear not, for the wise ones who have gone before us have left us with a treasure trove of quotes on aging that can help us navigate this journey with grace, humor, and perspective. So let's dive into the delightful world of quotes on aging and see what insights and laughs we can find along the way!
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1. “Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” – Tom Stoppard
2. “If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist. Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.” -David Bowie
3. “I have made a rule about such things, which I commend to you, young man: As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, DO IT.” Margaret Deland
4. “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stainslaw Jerzy Lec
5. “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
6. “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” ~Pablo Picasso
10. "Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.” - Meryl Streep
11. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” Samuel Ullman
12. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” Frank Lloyd Wright
13. “When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you…If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. That’s the ultimate test of how you have lived your life.” —Warren Buffett
14. “My face carries all my memories. Why would I erase them?” Diane Von Furstenberg
15. “We live in a youth-obsessed culture that is constantly trying to tell us that if we are not young, and we’re not glowing, and we’re not hot, that we don’t matter. I refuse to let a system or a culture or a distorted view of reality tell me that I don’t matter. I know that only by owning who and what you are can you start to step into the fullness of life. Every year should be teaching us all something valuable. Whether you get the lesson is really up to you.” Oprah Winfrey
16. “Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, ‘I’m going to be 30—oh, what am I going to do?’ Well, use that decade! Use them all!” Betty White
17. “The first 40 years of life give us the text; the next 30 supply the commentary on it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
18. “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” – George Sand
19. "Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
20. “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
21. “It matters not how long we live but how.” – Philip James Bailey
22. “The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. “Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better.” – Ingrid Bergman
24. “One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.” – Morgan Harper Nichols
25. “We are always the same age inside.” – Gertrude Stein
26. “Aging is just another word for living.” – Cindy Joseph
27. “Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” – Stainslaw Jerzy Lec
28. We are aging, thriving and inspiring. -Art in Aging
29. “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
30. “I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” -Mary Sarton
