“People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLooksAgeNumbersAttitudeFiveTwentiesAgingFeel GoodThese DaysTwenty FiveI Feel GoodAges Is Just A Number Author:Rita Moreno
“If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsHandsFacesMorningFiveMinutesDramaIndependentAgingTeethWelcomeMagazinesPlasticCreamSurgeryBrushesTormentFive MinutesGetting OldWrinklesTherapistsPlastic Surgery Author:Isabella Rossellini
“One of the sadder things, I think, Is how our birthdays slowly sink: Presents and parties disappear, The cards grow fewer year by year, Till, when one reaches sixty-five, How many care we're still alive?” ThinkingYearsStillsCareGrowsPartyFiveAliveAgingDisappearCardsFewerSixty Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.” IfsYearsAgeFiveMonthsAgingEightFortySixtyFifteenForty EightGeriatrics Author:James Thurber
“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.” IfsWellsDoePlayUseArtistRealizingLinesCareersFiveArmyTwentiesSalvationAgingJazzAverageFiftyTwenty FiveSalvation Army Author:Oscar Peterson
“Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.” SufferingFiveSubjectsBirthUnionsAgingIllnessNobleMonkClingingSeperation Author:Gautama Buddha