You
can only perceive real beauty in a person as they
get older.
-- Anouk Aimee
To
keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly,
cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,
and one of the most difficult chapters in the great
art of living.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel
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Children
have never been very good at listening to their
elders, but they have never failed to imitate
them.
-- James A.
Baldwin
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but
more like ourselves.
-- May L. Becker
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream
a new dream.
-- Les Brown
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To
find joy in work is to discover the fountain
of youth.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973)
Our
society must make it right and possible for
old people not to fear the young or be deserted
by them, for the test of a civilization is the
way that it cares for its helpless members.
-- Pearl
S. Buck (1892-1973)
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Every
time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going
to the grave, something else happens.
-- Lillian Carter
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I
am an old man, but in many senses a very young
man. And this is what I want you to be, young,
young all your life.
-- Pablo
Casals
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Most
people think that aging is irreversible and
we know that there are mechanisms even in the
human machinery that allow for the reversal
of aging, through correction of diet, through
anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from
the body, through exercise, through yoga and
breathing techniques, and through meditation.
-- Deepak
Chopra
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As
I approve of a youth that has something of the old
man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man
that has something of the youth. He that follows this
rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We've
put more effort into helping folks reach old age than
into helping them enjoy it.
-- Frank A. Clark
Senior
Citizens Day - August
21
Intl.
Day of Older Persons
- October 1