Charles Dickens Quotes

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

At 66 years of age, I feel about 20.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

I feel somewhere there is a fault in this whole mindset of not accepting the natural process. To age gracefully, to accept life with grace has more beauty and charm. But you have to be fit and healthy. And that is something we should strive for.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.

When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.