Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden read more

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

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

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
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He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.