QUOTES
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
"Our life is what our thoughts make it"
Marcus Aurelius
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
“Aging has a wonderful beauty, and we should have respect for that.”
Eartha Kitt
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have.”
Cicely Tyson
“Aging is just another word for living.”
Cindy Joseph
“Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.”
Cindy McDonal
“The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present and future.”
Edith Pearlman
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” —Dalai Lama
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” —Lao Tzu
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” —Josh Billings
“The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.” —Oprah
“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” —Oprah
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” —Harvey Fierstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” ―Mary Oliver
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” —Confucius
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” —Vernon Howard
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” —Ernest Holmes
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” —Will Smith
“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” —Emily Dickinson
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” —Havelock Ellis
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” —Sydney J. Harris
“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.” —Jerry Seinfeld
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” —Henry Miller
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” —Bruce Lee
“People skills are the social lubricant of life.” —Vanessa Van Edwards