I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition. — Jamie Lee Curtis
Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept. — David Sinclair
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. — Betty Friedan
Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. — Gary Brecka
Aging is for people who don't know any better. — Tony Horton
My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional." — Christiane Northrup
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. — Maurice Chevalier
We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn't just accept aging. — David Sinclair
You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly. — Erik Erikson
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege. — Irish Proverbs
You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift. — Meryl Streep
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. — Michael Sheen
Short Accepting Aging Quotes
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible. — Judith Regan
Aging is a disease and that disease is treatable. — David Sinclair
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. — Mark Twain
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. — Brigitte Bardot
Aging has 100% mortality rate and no one cares. — Andrej Karpathy
Accepting Aging Image Quotes
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Sign Of Aging Quotes
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art. — Oscar Wilde
People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic. — Henry Cavill
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. — John Doerr
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
Ours is an age between worldviews, creative yet disoriented, a transitional era when the old cultural vision no longer holds and the new has not yet constellated. Yet we are not without signs of what the new might look like — Richard Tarnas
Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork. — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. — Rabindranath Tagore
Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own. — Roger Moore
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character. — P. J. O'Rourke
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Aging Love Quotes
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. — Paul the Apostle
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! — Leo Buscaglia
I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie
Accept what is. Let go what was. Have faith in what will be.
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation. — Madeleine L'Engle
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. — Saint John Chrysostom
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. — Clarence Darrow
Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. — Ray Bradbury
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. — Bruce D. Perry
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. — Andre Maurois
The Lord's appearing, His coming back, is a warning, an encouragement, and an incentive to us; we should love His appearing and look forward to it with earnest expectation and joy. — Witness Lee
Old Age Quotes
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young. — Joseph Pilates
Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it. — Guru Gobind Singh
We turn not older with years but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson
Embracing Aging Quotes
Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug. — Sayings
Exercise is remarkably beneficial for the brain. High fitness levels in midlife delayed dementia onset by 9.5 years in women. Larger brain volumes have also been linked to increased physical activity. Maintain youthful brain volume by embracing exercise. We can transform our brain health as we age. — Rhonda Patrick
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. — Peter Akinola
If you live for people's acceptance, you will die from their rejection.
Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing;
If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully -
A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages.
Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe! — Ikkyu
I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me! — Fidelis of Sigmaringen
I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings. — Mark Wahlberg
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. — Alan Hirsch
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. — Olivia Munn
I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn. — Sayings
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. — Andy Serkis
Aging Gracefully Quotes
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. — Sting
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. — Victor Hugo
The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.
Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security — John Allen Paulos
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. — Lynsay Sands
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace. — Danielle Steel
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. — Eric Roth
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! — Audrey Hepburn
A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn't do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I'm against Botox, I'm against injections; I think it's damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It's all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does. — Melania Trump
Aging Is Inevitable Quotes
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
Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on earth are wonderful gifts from God, but they are temporary and fragile, often broken by divorce, distance, growing old, and inevitably, death. — Rick Warren
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life. — Deepak Chopra
Some learning and talent professionals, together with some organisations, are finding it a challenge to make changes from these age-old HR and learning practices. However, it is inevitable that they will need to adopt new ways of learning to support new ways of working sooner rather than later. — Charles Jennings
If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again. — Diane Ackerman
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. — R. W. Apple, Jr.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. — Clive Bell
Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm. — Wayne Dyer
One of the great sophistries of our age, I think, is that merely because one has an inclination to do something, that therefore acting in accordance with that inclination is inevitable. That's contrary to our very nature as the Lord has revealed to us. We do have the power to control our behavior. — Lance B. Wickman
Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging. — Laura Huxley
Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity. — Henry Ford
The most important thing is growing old gracefully. — Audrey Hepburn
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. — Billy Graham
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. — Julie Burchill
I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet. — Rita Rudner
Generally, old media don't die. They just have to grow old gracefully. Guess what, we still have stone masons. They haven't been the primary purveyors of the written word for a while now of course, but they still have a role because you wouldn't want a TV screen on your headstone. — Douglas Adams
Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels. — Desmond Tutu
You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands. — Anthony Jeselnik
I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good. — Randy Savage
The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. — Howard Thurman
Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs
People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are. — Gurbaksh Chahal
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. — George Burns
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all. — Ann Landers
There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town. — Brock Lesnar
Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar. — John Glenn
Growing Old Quotes
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. — George Bernard Shaw
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective. — Myles Munroe
Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young. — Edgar Cayce
The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV
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
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years. — Zoroaster
He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege. — Cary Grant
Positive Aging Quotes
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older. — Louise Hay
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. — C. S. Lewis
The body is incredibly adaptable, and we can make positive changes to our health at any age. — Steven Gundry
Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk. — Kathy Ireland
As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age. — Kate Winslet
The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up. — Gustave Le Bon
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — Arthur Wing Pinero
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! — Edwin Louis Cole
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest. — Daniel Quinn
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. — Marshall McLuhan
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." — Swami Vivekananda
I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. — Myrlie Evers-Williams
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous. — John Ashbery
The face of an old woman can't be hidden even if she scrubbed it off with a scratch pad. — Moroccan Proverbs
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you. — Joan Rivers
I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it. — Ingrid Bergman
I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space. — Mario Vargas Llosa
People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong. — Philip Arthur Fisher
When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster. — Dean Koontz
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. — Martha Graham
Lucifer comes to give to us the final gift of wholeness. If we accept it then he is free and we are free. This is the Luciferic initiation. It is one that many people now, and in the days ahead, will be facing, for it is an initiation in the New Age. — David Spangler
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. — Jeannette Walls
I never accept lengthy film roles nowadays, because I am always so afraid I will die in the middle of shooting and cause such awful problems. — John Gielgud
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell. — Anton Chekhov
To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion. The human nature of the human being from conception to old age is not a metaphysical conception. It is plain experimental evidence. — Jerome Lejeune
Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. — Aubrey de Grey
Chris Christie who proposes accepting Syrian refugee orphans under the age of 5 because they may not be vetted well enough. You can`t trust them. The 5-year-olds might it be terrorists. After all, they`re from Syria. — Rachel Maddow
Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now. — Oprah Winfrey
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. — Zoe Saldana
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much. — Thomas Harris
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age. — Colleen McCullough
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply one thing or two, but a multitude. It is at once both lucid and opaque, it accepts both dark and light, speaks to youth and old age. — Jane Yolen
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. — Djuna Barnes
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. — Liz Carpenter
Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. — Hugh Hefner
I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life. — LaMarcus Aldridge
Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable. — Katherine Helmond
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball
1914...Dr. Joseph Goldberger had proven that (pellagra) was related to diet, and later showed that it could be prevented by simply eating liver or yeast. But it wasn't until the 1940's...that the 'modern' medical world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency. — G. Edward Griffin
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. — E. B. White
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. — Cherie Lunghi
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60. — Robert Genn
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. — Helen Keller
The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon. — John A. Keel
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste. — Friedrich von Schiller
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