Deepak Chopra Quotes

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.

Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.

It isn't so bad getting old. It really isn't. As long as I can stay healthy.

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.

I'm twice as old, but I feel good.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

50 years old is like springtime to me.

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

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

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.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

Aging is a chance to make what was good, great, and what was never so good, better...

Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.