20 Positive and Inspirational Quotes About Growing Old

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Getting older isn’t hard, it just happens. I’ve never understood why people freak out about certain birthdays, it’s not like we have a choice and I consider myself lucky on every birthday to have made it another year. Maybe it’s time we start celebrating life by looking at birthdays as the start of a great new adventure and not the end of our youth. You can’t stay young, that’s been proven, so find a way to enjoy yourself no matter how old the calendar says you are.

I’m a firm believer in never losing the joy in playing, the delight in talking to children, the bliss is enjoying beauty of the world, and of listening to the inspirational sounds of music.

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Here are my favorite quotes on aging….

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. ~Doug Larso

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ~Madeleine L’Engle

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. ~Samuel Ullman

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. ~Author Unknown

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore

We are always the same age inside. ~Gertrude Stein

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige

It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ~Victor Hugo

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all. –Ann Landers

Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~Kurt Vonnegut

The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why,” I answered without a thought, “now.” ~David Grayson

We love aged wine and distressed furniture, so why do we not appreciate the same features in people? – ME