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“Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.”

People Knows Giving Should Persons Young Force Process Sin Attention Too Much Danger Serious Duty Aging Unfolding Memories Dreams Reflections Inexorable Contractions

Author:Carl Jung

“The general direction of evolution is to produce a serially imprinting, multibrained creature able to decipher its own program, create the technology to leave the planet and live in post-terrestrial mini-worlds, decode the aging sectors of the DNA code--thus assuring immortality, and act in harmony with stages of evolution to come.”

World Able Technology Stage Produce Planets Evolution Creatures Program Harmony Aging Posts Code Immortality Dna Decipher Imprinting

Author:Timothy Leary

“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.”

Inspiring Music Musician Aging Retirement Retiring Retired Jazz Musician Famous Musician Retirement Age Inspirational Retirement Black Music

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree.”

Knows Wells Fun Process Forget Degrees Aging

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.”

Way Long Aging Tedious Way To Live

Author:Faina Ranevskaya

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

Thinking Ends Age Time Loneliness Aging Finals Genuine Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Final Destination

Author:Edward Gibbon

“I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.”

People Thinking Trying Years Wells Happens Age Fall Accepting Nice Gains Trade Aging Old Age Falling Apart Mellow

Author:Woody Allen

“On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.”

Young Aging West Population Native Elsewhere Continents Fading Demographics

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.”

Source: Dance for Two: Essays

“Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.”

Source Anxiety Aspect Aging Deeper Contemplating Liberating

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.”

Play Games Teach Teaching Aging Playing Games

Book:Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

Source: Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People

“Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.”

Effects Comfort Aging Misunderstanding

Book:Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“I spent on the Other Earth many "other years," wandering from mind to mind and country to country, but I did not gain any clear understanding of the psychology of the Other Men and the significance of their history till I encountered one of their philosophers, an aging but still vigorous man whose eccentric and unpalatable views had prevented him from attaining eminence.”

Men Years Mind Stills Country Earth Understanding Views Clear Psychology Gains Aging Philosopher Wander Significance Eccentric Vigorous Eminence

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.”

Stills Figures Painting Aging

Author:Bern Will Brown

“It's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirirt.”

Body Like You Trade Aging Agility

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.”

Life Literature Tree Theory Spring Green Aging Dear Golden Gray Dear Friend Tree Of Life

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”

Today Garden Aging Inner Peace This Day Live In The Moment Carpe Diem Bad Day Live For Today Past And Present Carpe Past Present And Future Past Present Future Tattooed Future And Present Past Present Future Love Is It Worth It

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.”

Self Running Young Promise Aging Psychological Landscape Our Time Indulgence Vegas Las Vegas Therapeutic Ethos Self Indulgence

Book:Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

Source: Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-first Century

“During a recent interview, President Obama revealed that his favorite movie this year was 'Boyhood.' It makes sense. If there's one thing Obama can identify with, it's aging several years over the course of a couple of hours.”

Ifs Years Courses President Hours One Thing Couple Aging Make Sense Interviews President Obama Boyhood

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I am in the prime of senility.”

Age Aging Prime Senility

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.”

Ifs Self Dream Sides Creative Records Sky Concepts Originals Who You Are Aging Wide Accomplishment You Choose Absolutely Nothing Free Time Uncommitted

Author:Barbara Sher

“In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.”

Knows Way Years Important Enough Moments Kids Young Fun Term Youth Regret Right Now Aging Extras This Day Our Future Your Future Priceless Invest In Yourself

Author:Victoria Moran

“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.”

Knows Years Sometimes Young Dies Grows Loses Aging Ignorant Grandfather Glimpse Ponds Midsummer

Book:The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

Source: The Selected Poems of Donald Hall

“The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'”

Used Too Much Baby Aging Covered Cream Adverts

Author:Andrew Bird

“We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents”

Aging Fourth Commandments Grandparent

Author:Pope Francis

“The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.”

Seems Age Waiting Lines Aging Fewer Getting Older Funny Aging Funny Happy Birthday Birthday Humor Hilarious Happy Birthday Waiting In Line

Author:Will Rogers

“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”

Thinking Littles Made Able Remember Process Deals Fashion Source Lovers Aging Silent Complexes Legs Tails Negotiation Bargains Frogs Mermaid Remember Something Tadpoles

Author:Rae Armantrout

“The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.”

Knows Trying Looks Littles Stills Faces Bits Little Bit Aging Actresses Dine

Author:John McCain

“The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.”

Grows Greater Aging Ordeals

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.”

Problem Age Simple Solutions Aging Simple Solutions

Author:Coco Chanel

“There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.”

Attention Aging Pay Attention Depressing Rotten

Author:Joan Rivers

“At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.”

Men Age Time Dog Twenties Aging Thirty Fifty Forty Lions Sixty Seventies Eighty Apes Serpent Camels Peacock

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.”

“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”

Problem Age Aging Old Age Birthday 50th Birthday

Author:Billy Graham

“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.”

Age Economy Aging

Author:Katharine Graham

“It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.”

Feels Years Wells Important Remember Aging Decline Jolly

Book:On Getting Old for the First Time

Source: On Getting Old for the First Time

“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”

Years Age Term Acceptance Glory Aging Maturity

Author:Martha Graham

“We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.”

Trying Action Waiting Effort Morning Missing Youth Materials Aging Clock Reaching Afternoon Emphasis Terrific Unnatural Flowering Belittle Breathless

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

Ends Whole Strange Aging Strange Things

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.”

Way Sometimes Eye Age Saws Growing Ready Mirrors Aging Depth Old Age Catching Paralyzed

Book:Force of circumstance

Source: Force of circumstance

“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.”

Ifs Children Age Heaven Adults Aging Innocence Inevitable Yearning Cynicism

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”

Long Facts Age Passion Modern Dying Youth Approach Direct Aging Avoided Obsessive Modern Society Direct Approach

Author:Marya Mannes

“I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.”

Knows Want I Can Age Written Aging Nonsense

Author:Nora Ephron

“I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.”

People Knows Feels Age Differences Aging Crucial Old People

Book:Fountain of Age

Source: Fountain of Age

“The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.”

People Firsts Has Beens Seems Age Process Perfect Talking Too Much Growing Drink Aging Strikes Instance Mechanism Listeners Signals Old People Restless Aging Process Talking Too Much

Author:Barbara Walters

“the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.”

Real Moving Levels Steps Growing Evidence Importance Aging Climbs Over It Growing Old Meadows Growing Older

Book:The book of Stillmeadow

Source: The book of Stillmeadow

“Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.”

People Ifs Want Writing Persons Book Age Jobs Young Names Mets Aging Yesterday Reaching Someday Marketplace Marble Demographics Zeitgeist

Author:Nora Ephron

“Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.”

Age Too Much Laughter Aging Pleasant Exertion

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.”

Men Years Running Age Secret Car Aging Fruit Old Man Italian Bus Longevity Rotten Ferrari Plums Fried Food Nectarines

Author:Mel Brooks

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