Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.

- Michael Meade.

 

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

- H. B. Warner, Lost Horizons

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This is the rare joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by our self as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world

will not devote itself to making you happy.

- George Bernard Shaw

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

– Sophia Loren

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Aging is not something that just happens to us.

It is something we can choose to do well.

- Unknown

 

If you are pining for youth, I think it produces a stereotypical old man

because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist.

I think aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person

that you always should have been.

– David Bowie

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Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older.

They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of

living the wrong life, not a long life.

– Martha Beck

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquility of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

– W. Somerset Maugham

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The dreams of youth are the regrets of old age.

-Ted Curry, Legend

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Odder still how possessed I am with the feeling that now, aged 50, I’m just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are… These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

– Virginia Woolf

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The great thing about getting older is that

you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

– Author Madeleine L'Engle

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

– Henry Ford

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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.

– Minister and columnist Frank Crane

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I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half.

The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

– Activist and writer Frances Lear

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but

beautiful old people are works of art.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better than in the turmoil of adventure.

– Philosopher and writer George Santayana

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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world;

I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.

– Susan B. Anthony

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A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

– Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung

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Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. With age comes the opportunity for acquiring and developing wisdom.

– Unknown

 

When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them.  If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

– Warren Buffett

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Always remember you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

– Anthropologist Margaret Mead

 

The end of the search for love is beyond behavior, because in time the mind decides to look inward, and when it does, the search changes into a search for the essential self, the me that knows “I am love.”

- Deepak Chopra

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The most powerful starting point for any endeavor is not the question “What do I want?”, but “What does Life want from me? How do I serve the whole?'"

- Eckhart Tolle

 

In life the first act is exciting, but it is the second act –

That’s when the depth comes in.

- Frank Langelia, Wall Street

 

When a Great Adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.

- Amelia Earhart