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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. -- Betty Friedan
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
Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness. -- Kenneth Branagh
Aging and death is what happens to everybody. -- Young Jean Lee
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain
The golden age is before us, not behind us. -- William Shakespeare
Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth. -- Mitch Albom
Aging is for people who don't know any better. -- Tony Horton
Aging will create the music of the coming century. -- Betty Friedan
We Have Medicalized Aging, and That Experiment Is Failing Us -- Atul Gawande
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. -- Henry Ford
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it. -- Clint Eastwood
My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional." -- Christiane Northrup
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. -- Eartha Kitt
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. -- John Barrymore
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. -- Pearl S. Buck
Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying. -- Erin McKean
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -- C. S. Lewis
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. -- Courteney Cox
Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward. -- Max Lucado
Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money. -- Richard Lamm
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. -- George Bernard Shaw
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. -- Mark Twain
Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands. -- Diane von Furstenberg
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. -- C. S. Lewis
As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors. -- Claire McCaskill
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -- Robert Frost
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein
Aging is a chance to make what was good, great; and what was never so good, better. -- Amy Bloom
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -- Margaret Atwood
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. -- Francis Bacon
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -- Andrew Carnegie
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity. -- Robin Sharma
Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. -- Joan Didion
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Louis Kronenberger
The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging... -- Dana Gould
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. -- Edmund Burke
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point. -- Susan Sarandon
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken. -- Naomi Wolf
Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness. -- Dacia Maraini
Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory. -- Susan Jeffers
Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction. -- Margaret M. Lock
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. -- Cecelia Ahern
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
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford
Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes. -- Jeanne Moreau
Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes. -- Ray Kurzweil
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
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire. -- Jim Cooper
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
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young. -- Iris Apfel
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
Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart. -- Michio Kaku
It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. -- Donald Hall
Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability. -- Susan Sontag
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. -- Neil Gaiman
Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy. -- Evelyn Lauder
I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging. -- Barbara Hershey
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty. -- Celine Dion
My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit. -- Rob Lowe
I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. -- Christopher Reeve
Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. -- Billy Graham
Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family. -- Nicole Kidman
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. -- Robert Farrar Capon
And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. -- Annie Leibovitz
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young. -- Jeff Bezos
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them. -- S. Jay Olshansky
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here? -- Goldie Hawn
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. -- Maya Angelou
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income. -- Tom Vilsack
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. -- Graydon Carter
I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! -- Faith Hill
I'm not afraid of aging. -- Shelley Duvall
I believe in aging gracefully -- Tatjana Patitz
I believe in aging gracefully. -- Tatjana Patitz
Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field. -- Peter Thiel
I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully. -- Dave Matthews
I am an aging Girl Scout. -- Amy Sedaris
I'm aging, and the world is seeing it. -- Ray Romano
How can I appreciate light from an aging -- Pattiann Rogers
The restful alertness response reverses the aging process. -- Deepak Chopra
As a nation, we have never embraced aging, -- Denise Lewis
Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead. -- Ana Monnar
The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging. -- Laurie Glimcher
Time in his aging overtakes all things alike. -- Aeschylus
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person. -- Richard Pryor
The signs of psychic draining - we call aging. -- Frederick Lenz
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. -- Leighton Meester
I get all fired up about aging in America. -- Willard Scott
I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging. -- Viola Davis
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work. -- S. Jay Olshansky
You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words. -- Milton Berle
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging. -- Plutarch
Biological age is the key component of the aging process. -- Deepak Chopra
I think experienced makes me sound like an aging hooker. -- Susan Mallery
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead. -- Lillian Hellman
I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process. -- Sharon Stone
Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway? -- Robert Plant
The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals. -- Ralph Nader
I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging. -- Naomi Campbell
Food can heal and renew. Food can be your anti-aging medicine. -- Deepak Chopra
The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging. -- Deepak Chopra
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. -- Katharine Graham
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. -- Susan Anton
Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong. -- Jorge Cruise
I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. -- William Devane
The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us. -- Alexandra Robbins
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness. -- Gail Sheehy
Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day. -- Faith Hill

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