15 quotes that will help you embrace aging.
Some people try to avoid aging like the plague. Whether it’s purchasing anti-aging products or investing in some medical procedures, people are always trying to avoid looking older. There’s unfortunately this societal pressure to always look young. However, a lot of people don’t realize that aging is actually a beautiful thing.
As we get older, we tend to get wiser and more confident in ourselves. We really start to come into our own. It’s a remarkable feeling. In fact, your face shows a story. Ultimately, getting older should be rebranded as a positive experience; a celebration of life.
Listed below are fifteen quotes that will help you view the concept of aging in a more optimistic lens.
“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
- George Burns
“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
- James Broughton
“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.”
- Samuel Ullman
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
- Betty Friedan
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
- Tom Stoppard
“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.”
- Tom Stoppard
“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
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
- Casey Stengel
“We are always the same age inside.”
- Gertrude Stein
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.”
- Katharine Graham
“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”
- Alan Bleasdale
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
- Mark Twain
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
- Victor Hugo
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”
- Andre Maurois