Michael Douglas Quotes

What I thought 41 would be at 26 is definitely not what I feel now. I still feel incredibly youthful on the inside, in my brain.

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.

I look eight years older than everybody.

I'm 30. I'm not that young, right? I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future.

When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

There is more and more data that the biological molecules of aging are more under the influence of psychological factors than the chronological age that we usually associate with. Of course there are other things that influence our aging process, including how we perceive time. If you're constantly running out of time, then your biological clock speeds up, and you do run out of time with a heart attack or something like that. The quality of our self-esteem determines how we age. Our perception of our bodies as fields of energy or fields of matter influence how our body ages.

The body is the garden of the soul.

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

When you stimulate your body, your brain comes alive in ways you can't simulate in a sedentary position.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.