"Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour."
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"I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown."
"Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born."
"I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all."
"The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted."
"As a nation, we have never embraced aging."
"There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body."
"Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it."
"The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying."
"Aging and death is what happens to everybody."
"Systems die; instincts remain."
"The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging."
"You can either keep peddling, get off the bike or fall over."
"At this age, I should be leading a quiet life."
"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."
"The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts."
"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
"We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near."
"In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in."