Quotes on Growing Old Gracefully

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

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

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.

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.

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

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