Aging Gracefully Quotes

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”
― Jules Renard

“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”
― Lynsay Sands

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
― Robert Browning

“I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”
― Núria Añó

“As our body journeys through life, and life journeys on our body….life will leave marks on us too. From the creases of our wrinkles to the birthmarks on our bodies to the tattoos we decide to place.”
― lauren klarfeld

“When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.”
― Linda Gray, The Road to Happiness is Always Under Construction

“No age of life is inglorious. Youth has its merits, but living to a ripe old age is the true statement of value. Aging is the road that we take to discern our character. Fame and fortune can elude us, but character is immortal. We must encounter a sufficient variety of experiences including both failures and accomplishments in order to gain nobility of character.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I like the woman you became better than the girl you were. I like the story you’ve written on your face”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“Once you have turned eighty, it's important to have the right sort of wrinkles. Even more important, though is to start laughing early enough to spend more time laughing than frowning. If your wrinkles point upward, you will look happy instead of merely old.”
― Margareta Magnusson, The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You

“Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Let's remember that every bit of progress we have made in our own lives, as women, toward living out loud, in our power, and in the light, has been made possible not only by our own hard work and perseverance, but on the backs of the pioneering women before us, who literally put their lives on the line for us to be able to do so.”
― Dr. Mara Karpel, The Passionate Life : Creating Vitality & Joy at Any Age

“I finally understand that there is no age limit on growth and self-discovery. We see our lives and ourselves in different chapters, different versions, through different perspectives as we age. We are a prism of ourselves. But we cannot clearly see our future until we clearly see ourselves.”
― Viola Shipman, Famous in a Small Town

“The passionate heart never ages.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“Getting old isn't for sissies.”
― Main Character of And Then There's Margaret

“I had hit a personal low. I was out of work for the first time since I was seventeen. I had no job, a blank date book, and so much time on my hands I could lunch with the girls. Sure, I had money. But I was also a bit lost. The kids were grown and living their own lives. Without work, which had been central to my identity and my self-esteem for so many years, I was no longer sure who I was. I had been retired for two months, and already I was panicked.”
― Lynda Resnick, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business

“You don’t understand this when you’re younger but at some point, you cease doing things, cease creating new memories,” he thought aloud. “You are stuck in a rocking chair. And all you have are your memories. Those beautiful droplets of color you’ve managed to steal from the rainbow. And you go back to them over and over and over, like a Catholic praying the rosary. You dig in deep, sifting through decades, years, seasons, weeks, hours, and seconds of your life, trying to figure out what it all meant. I wanted to come back to you. I wanted to see you in color, to grasp my own little rainbow.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, Vanishing Bodies: An Epic Science Fiction Romance

“My ages apart, I wish to live before my death and beyond my death.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Living long is easy, age slowly and mature as early as possible, learned from nature.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Apart aging, certain things will not change and certain things will not be the same, love and sex.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Stop saying "If I only knew then what I know now" and start using what you know now.”
― Rob Liano

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what they say. I hum my songs and march ahead.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“When we get older, we need to get more quiet and still. We must soften and let the inner body expand more. This is the work.”
― Alison Litchfield, Roots and Wings: A Woman’s Guide to Embodying the Midlife Passage

“Whenever you feel like you’re too old, that you don’t have the right clothes to wear, need to lose weight first, feel self-conscious, or
think it’s easier to just crawl back under the covers and hover your remote—that’s the moment—the exact moment—to let go of your
fears and ‘Just Do It.”
― Gabrielle Jordan, Help! My Face Is Falling!: Aging: No Grace Required

“Her mother loves to remind her of her age, as if it is a reason to stop believing in magic. She rolls her eyes at the thought—yes, she is a grown woman, and is that not magical in itself? To have survived this long, despite the world’s penchant for beautiful dead girls? Marigold has grown up surrounded by the poets who propel the narrative—how romantic to die young, unstretched, unsullied, without ever outgrowing the part of the ingenue. But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she aged proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides?”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch