Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable.” ~Wayne Dyer That is, I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. “I’ve always said that I will never let an old person into my body.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
The first half is finding out how you do it. “I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half.“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.” ~George Bernard Shaw.“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.Be comfortable with growing older.” ~Louise Hay Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” ~Jackie Joyner-Kersee “Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.” ~ Marilyn Ferguson.“I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.” ~ Mary Sarton.If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~Mark Twain “One of the reasons people get old-lose their aliveness-is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.” ~Richard Leider.Every year brings you closer to expressing your whole and healed self.” ~Oprah Winfrey “Every year should teach you something valuable whether you get the lesson is up to you.“For the unlearned, old age is winter for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.” ~Hasidic saying.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 So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young. “In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” ~Sophia Loren