Quotes on Aging Gracefully

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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