Wayne Dyer Quotes

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Getting older is almost like changing species, from cute middle-aged, white-tailed deer, to yak.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

There's nothing good about being my age.

But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!

I just got diagnosed with tendonitis which is such an insulting diagnosis. Just point to my shoulder and say "old."

I want to tell people approaching and perhaps fearing old age that it is a time of discovery. If they say "Of what?" I can only answer "We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery."

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

Add there was that moment when my mother and father walked in the door disguised as old people. I thought the miles in the car had bent them, dulled their eyes, even grayed and whitened their hair and caused their hands and voices to tremble. At the same time, I found, as I rose form the chair, I'd gotten old along with them.

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

It is very different when you age. The things that are significant, or what drives you, or the physical experience of being driven, changes over time.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.