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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“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.”
“How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it every day. Your health account is no different.”
“Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.”
“The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.”
“Progress is made where progress is measured.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.”
“To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.”
“It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.”
“Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.”
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
“You don’t get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.”
“Taking care of your body is important, but tending to your relationships is a form of self-care too.”
“It is not how old you are, but how you are old.”
“A long life is not good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
“People don’t die of old age. They die of neglect.”
“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.”
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
“The vitality of your body constitutes an important part of your personality.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“The two most dangerous years of your life are the year you are born and the year you retire.”
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
“The objective is to die young as late as possible.”
“Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.”
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
“The joyfulness of man prolongeth his days.”
“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
“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.”
