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    Maya Angelou
    “Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: aging, growing-up
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    Audrey Hepburn
    “And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”
    ― Audrey Hepburn
    tags: aging, aging-gracefully
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    Sara Gruen
    “Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”
    ― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
    tags: aging
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Sophia Loren
    “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
    ― Sophia Loren
    tags: aeshetics, age, aging, creativity, youth
    458 likes

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    George Bernard Shaw
    “You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    tags: aging, aging-gracefully
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    Brian Rathbone
    “Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
    ― Brian Rathbone, Regent
    tags: aging, life-experience, life-lessons, wisdom
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    Andy Rooney
    “It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
    ― Andy Rooney
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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    Naomi Wolf
    “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
    ― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
    tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, sexual-violence, sexuality, society
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    Martin Amis
    “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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    “I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?”
    ― Kenneth Cain, Emergency Sex: And Other Desperate Measures
    tags: aging, cynicism, idealism, maturity
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    Mitch Albom
    “Embrace aging.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: aging, aphorisms
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    Amy Neftzger
    “I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”
    ― Amy Neftzger
    tags: aging, chocolate, food, wrinkles
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    Doris Day
    “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
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    ― Doris Day
    tags: aging, middle-age
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    Isabel Wolff
    “Lines don’t make beautiful women less beautiful”
    ― Isabel Wolff, A Vintage Affair
    tags: aging, women
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    Phyllis Diller
    “Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
    ― Phyllis Diller
    tags: aging, getting-old, middle-age-spread, wearing-out
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    Mitch Albom
    “It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
    ― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
    tags: aging, dying, growth, ignorance, learning, life
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    May Sarton
    “Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”
    ― May Sarton, The Poet and the Donkey
    tags: aging
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    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.”
    ― Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity
    tags: aging, love, might-have-been, nostalgia, regret, self-reflection, wistfulness
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    Celia Rivenbark
    “My friends scoffed at my anxiety and said dumb things like, 'Fifty is the new forty!' Which just made me realize that there are a whole lot of other people who suck at math as bad as I do. No. Fifty is fifty.”
    ― Celia Rivenbark, You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning
    tags: aging, humor
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    Carol Shields
    “Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.”
    ― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
    tags: aging, humor, living
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    David Deida
    “But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”
    ― David Deida, Intimate Communion: Awakening Your Sexual Essence
    tags: aging
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    Ana Monnar
    “Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.”
    ― Ana Monnar
    tags: aging, dead, death, life, living
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    Alain de Botton
    “Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”
    ― alain de botton
    tags: aging, learning, life, self, self-knowledge
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    Terry Pratchett
    “I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
    tags: aging, growing-up
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    Victoria Moran
    “Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)”
    ― Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
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  • #27
    “The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.”
    ― Judith Regan
    tags: aging
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  • #28
    “The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.”
    ― Germain G. Glidden
    tags: aging, listening
    29 likes



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