Senior Strengths – Senior Strong

Positive Quotes About Aging

• “We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” —Pablo Picasso
• “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
• “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” —Franz Kafka
• “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” —Henry David Thoreau
• “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
• “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” —Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” —Pearl S. Buck
• “When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.” —Marty Buccella
• “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” —Betty Friedan
• “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” —George Burns
• “I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” — Mary Sarton
• “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. —John Lennon
• “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” —Mark Twain
• “You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” —George Bernard Shaw
• “The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth
• “Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.” —Keith Richards
• “It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” – Elizabeth Lesser
• “I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.” — Virginia Woolf
• “For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.” —Hasidic saying
• “Your 40s are good. Your 50s are great. Your 60s are fab. And 70 is f*@king awesome!” —Helen Mirren
• “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Ben Franklin
• “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “One of the reasons people get old—lose their aliveness—is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” —Richard Leider
• “The trouble is, when a number—your age—becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future.” —Richard J. Leider
• “With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• “Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!” —Ingrid Bergman
• “Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” —Marilyn Ferguson