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  • I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

    Good Day   Feet   Giving  
  • I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.

    Fashion   Hate   Fighting  
    "Church's Doctrine". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. May 23, 2007.
  • Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  • Systems die; instincts remain.

  • Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.

    Summer   Mother   Self  
  • I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  • Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

    Birthday   Voice   Age  
    "Aung San Suu Kyi criticises Burmese election irregularities" by Esmer Golluoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
  • Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

    Character   Mean   Views  
    William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber
  • She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.

    Regret   Blood   Years  
  • If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.

    Friends   Children   Real  
    Mary Heaton Vorse (2007). “The Autobiography of an Elderly Woman”, p.57, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

    Blood   Sea   Aging  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics
  • Now is the age of anxiety.

    Birthday   Anxiety   Age  
  • In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

    Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press
  • Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

    Anxiety   Aging   Source  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

    Time   Age   Essentials  
    Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

    Dream   Real   Age  
  • I grow more intense as I age.

    Age   Aging   Intense  
  • Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

    Birthday   Death   Time  
  • I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories.

    Memories   Size   Aging  
    "Fictional character: Maury Ballstein". "Zoolander", www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them.

    Beautiful   Air   Shining  
    "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.
  • Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

    Lucky   Aging   Life Is  
  • But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

    Wise   Long   Age  
    Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.316
  • My intention has been to encourage viewers to face their prejudices about prostitution, sex and aging while reflecting on the complex and varied forms that love and loneliness can take.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  • I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

    Wise   Stars   Winning  
  • Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

    Mind   Watches   Midlife  
  • Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

    George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers
  • Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

    Age   Aging   Jerk  
    Jean Rhys (1975). “My Day: Three Pieces”
  • Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don’t need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.

    Dark   Light   People  
    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.
  • In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

    Age   Youth   Aging  
    "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them" l. 21 (1799)
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