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Let our inspirational and uplifting old people quotes and sayings help us see with clarity and wisdom how to live beyond physical age and live eternally from the heart.
If one has lived a fulfilling youth life in wisdom and grandeur, it reflects in old age.
When a person grows old gracefully, the wrinkles and fine lines are not reasons of stress but great adventures and beautiful stories waiting to be shared with the younger generation.
Some older people I have encountered look even more beautiful than the younger generations. There is an untold glow and warmness in their face and shaky hands, and it only echoes the amazing life lived.
George Burns wisely quotes on aging gracefully. He quotes, ‘ You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.’
But equally, one can witness older adults living in loneliness, self-isolation, mental and physical agony. Jennifer Yane sentiments that very well. She quotes, ‘ Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.’
It all depends on how one is choosing to live right now, and old age will be an outcome of today’s quality of life spent.
Let’s live a fantastic youth life that will keep us living beautifully even when the body gets old. Lived in inner richness and died in fulfillment. Let our life stories have such a quality.
Best Old People Quotes and Sayings
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.
– Louise Hay
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
– George Bernard Shaw
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
– George Burns
It’s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
– Jules Renard
Treasure the wisdom of old age. Learn from elder people and be wise.
– Lailah Gifty Akita
The young people think that the old people are fools; but the old people know that the young people are fools!
– Agatha Christie
It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they’ve no way o’ working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
– George Eliot
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
– Doris Lessing
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
– Pearl S. Buck
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
– Jennifer Yane
Old people’s speech is not to be dishonored — after all, they saw the sun first.
– African Proverbs
What the elders see while sitting the young ones standing on their toes won’t see.
– African Proverbs
Old people accustomed to loneliness, though no one expects to spend his or her last years in solitude, absent from loved ones.
– John Grisham
Old people were young people before young people were people.
– Tom Wyatt
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
– John Quincy Adams
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
– Edgar Watson Howe
Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.
– Steve Jobs
Old people are often impatient, but for what?
– Jonathan Carroll
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
– Penelope Keith
Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise.
– Chinese Proverb
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty-they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
– Martin Buxbaum
After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
– Helen Gurley Brown
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
– Abraham Lincoln
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
– Albert Einstein
The old are in a second childhood.
– Aristophanes
Those who love deeply never grow old, they may die of old age, but they die young.
– Ben Franklin
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
– Betty Friedan
All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
– Billy Graham
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
– Deepak Chopra
With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in external affairs?
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe the second half of one’s life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
– Frances Lear
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
– Franz Kafka
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
– H. L. Mencken
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
– H. L. Mencken
For the unlearned, old age is winter for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.
– Hasidic Saying
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
– Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
– Henry Ford
I truly believe that age if you’re healthy age is just a number.
– Hugh Hefner
Getting old is like climbing a mountain you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!
– Ingrid Bergman
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
– Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
– John Lennon
Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
– Keith Richards
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
– Leon Trotsky
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
– Maggie Kuhn
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
– Margaret Mead
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
– Marilyn Ferguson
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
– Mark Twain
Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
– Oscar Wilde
We don’t grow older, we grow riper.
– Pablo Picasso
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
– Pearl S. Buck
The trouble is, when a number your age becomes your identity, you’ve given away your power to choose your future.
– Richard J. Leider
Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left.
– Robert A. Heinlein
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning
Older people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.
– Robert Orben
There is a fountain of youth, it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
– Virginia Woolf
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older.
– William Lyon Phelps
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
– William Wordsworth
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
– Dave Chappelle
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
– Grace Slick
Old people at weddings always poke me and say, You’re next. So I started doing that at funerals.
– Unknown
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
– Chinua Achebe
Don’t hustle old people.
– John Burns
There’s one more terrifying fact about old people: I’m going to be one soon.
– P. J. O’Rourke
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
– Henry David Thoreau
It doesn’t matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.
– Nina Hagen
There are no old people nowadays; they are either ‘wonderful for their age’ or dead.
– Mary Pettibone Poole
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