Aging Gracefully Quotes

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

I believe in aging gracefully

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin. I don't have a problem with any of that stuff; if it makes you feel better about yourself and it's done properly, then fine.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The spirit should never grow old.

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.