“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.” Quote by Louise Erdrich
“I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.” WantLifeShowsBodyAgeFacesIndividualEnjoyLinesPerfectLaughingTreeProudLaughterAgingRingsEnjoyedMeritScarDisplayEnjoy LifeGetting OlderTrunksBadgesLife Well LivedNot Being PerfectProud Of MyselfTree TrunksPerfect Face Author:Pat Benatar
“Read about a few men who wear (or wore) bow ties as an act of defiance, and check out a tie that makes a strong statement. Bow ties are cool.” MenStrongChecksStatementsTiesBowsDefianceBow Tie Author:Matt Smith
“Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.” ThinkingNeedsYearsMindMayBodySpiritGrowsPleasureSeasonsAgingHarvestParts Of Life Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and use our human abilities. . . . In sum, our development does not necessarily end at any age. We can continue to develop into our eighties, even to our nineties.” HumansDoeEndsUseAgePurposeGivenChallengesAbilityChildhoodYouthDevelopmentAgingSeventiesEightyEnd Of Life Author:Betty Friedan
“The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.” ShouldSelfWholeAgeLife IsOur LivesJourneySpecialDevelopmentPeriodsFundamentalsAgingRichesOld AgeEnjoyedContemplationExpansionHarvestSelf DevelopmentLife Is A JourneyGaietyHarvest Time Author:Ashley Montagu
“When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.” PersonsLightAgeYoungGraceAgingOld AgeDawnHandsomeAdmirableWrinklesSuperbIndescribable Author:Victor Hugo
“I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.” MenLooksSoulAgeYoungWinningStarsWiseAirYouthAgingStrangerRidiculousSpurs Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.” KnowsMenWorldWayAgeTodayLyingCertainDecisionHabitTomorrowRight NowAgingInsightYesterdayOld AgePerceiveOld ManCynicalMy Future Author:John Powell
“Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.” MayPersonsEndsLastsYoungJoySpiritSimpleChildhoodFlowerBreathsAgingEnthusiasmMaturityPoeticEcstasySimple JoysJoys Of Childhood Author:Eliphas Levi
“A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.” IfsHumansHeartGrowsInterestFlowerBirdAgingAutumnHuman HeartLivelyReproductionAutumn Leaves Author:Lydia M. Child