Ageing Well Quotes

“Don’t allow your brain to get old. You can’t do anything about the body–that will do what it wants–but you can keep your mind sharp.”
― Linzi Day, Midlife in Gretna Green

“We can’t force healing on anyone else. All you can do is be a beacon of light for others.”
― Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

“Some of us feel as if we’re outsiders. People occasionally talk about us in hushed tones, whispering that we’re a bit of a lone wolf, or at times a loose cannon. They don’t want to say it to our faces because every now and again we can be a little bit unpredictable. But they look at us with a strange curiosity, because in comparison – although they’re often very successful at ‘fitting in’ – they lead lives that are drab, dreary and monotonous. They’re not unruly like the Carefree Scamps. We have a divine spark of unruliness within us. And it’s that unruliness which has kept us young.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Wrong Planet people often look younger than everyone else.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“I think there’s something about certain people’s chosen ‘lifestyle’ which ages them. I can’t explain it any other way. Leaving school, building a career, getting old before their time as they take on more stress lacks that one essential element that we had oodles of as youngsters, and that’s fun. We had lively, buoyant and animated fun. We were carefree at an age when you’re supposed to be carefree. We were breezy, jaunty and happy-go-lucky”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“She was not beautiful, but she had a pleasant face, the sort that would wear well through life, becoming more attractive as she grew older.”
― Donna Leon, Suffer the Little Children

“When the dust settles, you will have known that it was always about ageing well, not just about how fit and strong you were when young... Step back, have a look and never lose sight of the bigger picture!”
― Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale

“Alluringly maturing is easier said than done.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Kill Your Darlings: Long Poem

“Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive.”
― Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

“Time always wins and it does it with a reminder.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Comes a point when even the best of doctors is helpless... It makes more sense to keep metabolic diseases at bay, through prevention. And, that’s where individual involvement in implementing effective lifestyle changes assumes importance.”
― Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale

“When the dust settles, when the admirers have left, you will have known, that it was always about ageing well, not just about how pretty you were, when young...

Step back, have a look and never lose sight of the bigger picture! ...work towards ageing well!”
― Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale aka 'Dr Dee'

“For me as a spouse of a husband who is sexually competent, this is a big issue for me. Not because I desire sex, but because he does.
He has become like a child in many ways. Yet, even as his abilities and personality diminish, he still wants us to act like we always have as husband and wife.”
― Susan Straley, Alzheimer's Trippin' with George: Diagnosis to Discovery in 10,000 Miles

“Ageing - Great things get Greater ”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Most people age way earlier than necessary. By thirty, many are old in themselves. By forty, most have lost the spark of life. By fifty, they are already senior. All of this is entirely preventable and, to a large extent, also reversible. Ageing happens at all levels of our being, but the most obvious is the body. Use it or lose it. Of course, you will be fighting a losing battle if you only exercise your body and not your mind and spirit. When you use them all, they will gladly and efficiently work together. Although we cannot completely stop the march of time on our use-by-stamped bodies, we can have the blessings of a well-functioning and alive body, an active and bright mind, and a loving and expressive soul.”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“Ageing is natural process, maturing is a choice only human can exercise.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“I love getting older. We don't get to enjoy God's full grace without ageing.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“There are problems that cannot be fixed by either conventional or social prescribing, and I listen sometimes to the discussions in the complex care meetings about Jason, a recidivist alcoholic, vile to his family and haughtily dismissive of every lifeline that is thrown his way, and about Francine, a reclusive hoarder, her floorboards rotting under her feet, as the conversations meander on about mental capacity and safety and personal choice, and it’s clear that the only way to fix the problems of both these people is to turn the clocks back… and since that is not an option, it would be better that we leave them as they are and maintain a level of contact that is humane but also respectful and realistic. Pg184-5”
― Lucy Pollock, The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing

“Advance plans were important before the pandemic and they remain important now... When we have a kind, honest conversation with each person or with their family or friends, or, best of all, everyone together, and especially when those conversations take place in better circumstances, with time to explore hopes and fears, then good plans can be made often surprisingly easily and with a sigh of relief.
Yet right now most escalation plans are created in exactly the type of situation they are designed to avoid: in an Emergency Department, or on a dark wet night in a care home or a bungalow with the paramedics’ stretcher waiting in the doorway for a decision, to stay or to go.
Advance care planning, including the creation of kind, articulate Treatment Escalation Plans that reflect the wishes of their owner, should be a right, not a burden, for all older people, and especially for those who have chronic conditions that can suddenly worsen and for those who live in care homes, whose views about treatment are better explored than assumed. Pg208-9”
― Lucy Pollock, The Golden Rule: Lessons in living from a doctor of ageing