Positive Quotes about Aging! 100+ Best Positive Aging Quotes
Positive Quotes about Aging
“We don’t grow older, we grow riper.” —Pablo Picasso
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” —Franz Kafka
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” —Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” —Pearl S. Buck
“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.” —Marty Buccella
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” —Betty Friedan
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” —George Burns
“I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” — Mary Sarton
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. —John Lennon
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” —Mark Twain
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” —George Bernard Shaw
“The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.” — William Wordsworth
“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.” —Keith Richards
“It’s like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit.” – Elizabeth Lesser
“I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.” — Virginia Woolf
“For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.” —Hasidic saying
“Your 40s are good. Your 50s are great. Your 60s are fab. And 70 is f*@king awesome!” —Helen Mirren
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Ben Franklin
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
“One of the reasons people get old—lose their aliveness—is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” —Richard Leider
“The trouble is, when a number—your age—becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future.” —Richard J. Leider
“With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!” —Ingrid Bergman
“Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” —Marilyn Ferguson
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” —Maggie Kuhn
“Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.” —Louise Hay
“Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating.” —Leo Buscaglia
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” —Albert Einstein
“Every year should teach you something valuable; whether you get the lesson is up to you. Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.” —Oprah Winfrey
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” —Henry Ford
“Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
“I’m baffled that anyone might not think women get more beautiful as they get older. Confidence comes with age, and looking beautiful comes from the confidence someone has in themselves.” —Kate Winslet
“I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is ‘anti.’ Aging is as natural as a baby’s softness and scent. Aging is human evolution in its pure form.” —Jamie Lee Curtis
“I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.” —Frances Lear
“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.” —Deepak Chopra
“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.” —William Lyon Phelps
“I’ve always said that I will never let an old person into my body. That is, I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable.” —Wayne Dyer
“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.” —Margaret Mead
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” —Sophia Loren
“I have absolutely no objection to growing older. I am a stroke survivor so I am extremely grateful to be aging – I have nothing but gratitude for the passing years. I am aging – lucky, lucky me!” —Sharon Stone
“I love living. I love that I’m alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn’t wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did.” —Maya Angelou
“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” —Edith Wharton
“The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.” —Maeve Binchy
“A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.” —Carl Jung
“In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.” —Douglas MacArthur
“My physical body may be less efficient and less beautiful in old age. But God has given me an enormous compensation: my mind is richer my Soul is broader and my wisdom is at a peak. I am so happy with the riches of my advanced peak age that, contrary to Faust, I would not wish to return to youth.” —Robert Muller
“It annoys me when people say, ‘Even if you’re old, you can be young at heart!’ Hiding inside this well-meaning phrase is a deep cultural assumption that old is bad and young is good. What’s wrong with being old at heart, I’d like to know? Wouldn’t you like to be loved by people whose hearts have practiced loving for a long time?” —Susan Moon
“Aging isn’t about getting old it’s about LIVING… Learning that you can age well, will actually help you to age better… let’s start celebrating and living an engaged life, and stop punishing ourselves for not looking a certain way, and instead holding ourselves accountable for actually taking care of ourselves inside first, knowing the results on the exterior will be a shining side effect.” —Cameron Diaz
“Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.” —George E. Vaillant
“Here’s what I know: I’m a better person at fifty than I was at forty-eight … and better at fifty-two than I was at fifty. I’m calmer, easier to live with. All this stuff is in my soul forever. Just don’t get lazy. Work at your relationships all the time. Take care of friendships, hold people you love close to you, take advantage of birthdays to celebrate fiercely. It’s the worrying — not the years themselves — that will make you less of a woman.” —Patti LaBelle
“Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.” —James Simpson
“There is also this pressure in Hollywood to be ageless. I think what I have been witness to is seeing women trying to stay ageless with what they are doing to themselves. I am grateful to learn from their mistakes, because I am not injecting shit into my face. I see them and my heart breaks. I think, ‘Oh, God, if you only knew how much older you look.’ They’re trying to stop the clock, and all you can see is an insecure person who won’t let themselves just age.” —Jennifer Aniston
Inspirational Quotes about Aging
“Wrinkles only show where smiles have been.” —Mark Twain
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” —Robert Browning
“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.” —Clint Eastwood
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! —Audrey Hepburn
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” —Katharine Graham
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” —Eartha Kitt
“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.” —Susan Anton
“Everyone will be old. We must grow old gracefully whoever we are.” —Kazeronnie Mak
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” —Betty Friedan
“Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.” —Courteney Cox
“It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.” —Arnold Palmer
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” —Kitty O’Neill Collins
“I’m not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.” —Danielle Steel
“If it seems as though things are under control, you’re not going fast enough.” —Mario Andretti
“The more candles on my cake, the more exercise I get blowing them out.” —Donna Lynn Hope
“Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you’ve had.” —Matt Maldre
“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.” —Eric Hoffer
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Ben Franklin
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent–that is to triumph over old age.” —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“It is not a question of how old you are, but a question of how you are old.” —Jules Renard
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.” —Lynsay Sands
“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” —Henri Frederic Amiel
“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” —James Garfield
“Older women are like aging strudels – the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.” —Robert Farrar Capon
“Women sit or move to and fro, some are old, some young. The young are beautiful – but the old are more beautiful than the young.” —Walt Whitman
“Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.” —Cindy Mcdonald
“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.” —William Holden
“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.” —Jeanne Moreau
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” —Sophia Loren
Positive Aging Gracefully Quotes
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! —Audrey Hepburn
“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” —Katharine Graham
“There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.” —Susan Anton
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” —Eartha Kitt
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” —Betty Friedan
“Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.” —Courteney Cox
“It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.” —Arnold Palmer
“Everyone will be old. We must grow old gracefully whoever we are.” — Kazeronnie Mak
“I’m not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.” —Danielle Steel
“If it seems as though things are under control, you’re not going fast enough.” —Mario Andretti
“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” —Kitty O’Neill Collins
“The more candles on my cake, the more exercise I get blowing them out.” —Donna Lynn Hope
“Age is not how old you are, but how many years of fun you’ve had.” —Matt Maldre
“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.” —Eric Hoffer
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” —George Bernard Shaw
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” —Ben Franklin
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent–that is to triumph over old age.” —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“It is not a question of how old you are, but a question of how you are old.” —Jules Renard
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.” —Lynsay Sands
“I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.” —Henri Frederic Amiel
“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” —James Garfield
“Older women are like aging strudels – the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.” —Robert Farrar Capon
“Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.” —Cindy Mcdonald
“Women sit or move to and fro, some are old, some young. The young are beautiful – but the old are more beautiful than the young.” —Walt Whitman
“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.” —William Holden
“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.” —Jeanne Moreau
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” —Sophia Loren