Age on Your Terms Quotes
How you live now decides how you live at seventy. The man who guards his health early makes old age another arena instead of a slow surrender. This Vitality path holds history's deepest quotes on longevity, vitality, and lasting strength. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“You don’t get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.”
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“People don’t die of old age. They die of neglect.”
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“How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it every day. Your health account is no different.”
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“Progress is made where progress is measured.”
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“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.”
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“The joyfulness of man prolongeth his days.”
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
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“A long life is not good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
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“The vitality of your body constitutes an important part of your personality.”
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“The objective is to die young as late as possible.”
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“Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
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“Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”
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“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
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“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”
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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
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“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
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“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.”
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“Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
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“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
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“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
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“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
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“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
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“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”
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“To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.”
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“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
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“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
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“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”
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“The two most dangerous years of your life are the year you are born and the year you retire.”
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“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
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“We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit.”
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“Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.”
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“A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.”
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“At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart’s desire without transgressing the norm.”
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