Continuing my inspiring quotes about ageing, here’s another eclectic mix of wisdom purveyors. I’ve emboldened my favourite quotes.
17. “Ageing is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” -― Betty Friedan
18. “Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.” ― Meryl Streep
19. “…inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” ― Terry Pratchett
20. “I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.”
― Karl Pilkington
21. “One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one’s dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.” ― W.B. Yeats,
22. “If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” ― Oscar Wilde
23. “… forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.” ― Julian Barne
24. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” ― Aldous Huxley
25. “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” ― Victor Hugo
26. “Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.” ― Lydia Maria Child
27. “I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.” ― Jeanne Louise Calment
28. “Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.” ― John Glenn
29. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” ― Satchel Paige
30. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.” ― Coco Chanel
31. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
32. When you’re 16, you think 28 is so old! And when you get to 28 and it’s fabulous you think what about 42? Ugh! And then 42 is great. As you reach each age, you gain the understanding you need to deal with it and enjoy it.” — Helen Mirren
33. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been” ― Mark Twain