Embracing Aging Quotes

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

I just turned 50. 50's like the new 49 and nothing better, let me tell you.

I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

You can't get old without living.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.