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“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“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.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.”

“Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.”

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

“And Finally I put down the last and the best advice I knew, on growing older. 'Stand up straight and try not to get fat.”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”