Aging is a natural part of life that many tend to look at from a negative point of view. They worry about physical limitations which can slow them down, impairing their ability to accomplish certain things in the same manner as they were able to when they were much younger.
However, it can be a pleasurable and positive experience and there’s a lot more to it than just the deterioration of physical abilities. Growing older means that we become wiser, have a clearer understanding of the world, achieve contentment and learn to accept and appreciate what we have become over the years.
In this article, we’ve put together a list of 70 positive quotes about aging to keep you feeling confident and motivated throughout the day.
70 Quotes about Aging
“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”
Jimmy Buffet
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
John Barrymore
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”
Satchel Paige
“I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to.”
Albert Einstein
“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
Abigail Van Buren
“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”
Clint Eastwood
“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”
Audrey Hepburn
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
“It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.”
Jules Renard
“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
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.”
Luis Bunuel
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, 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
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.”
Lynsay Sands
“Growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional!”
Walt Disney
“As a white candle in a holy place, so is the beauty of an aged face.”
Joseph Campbell
“I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward.”
Mary Sarton
“As I started getting older, I realized, ‘I’m so happy!’ I didn’t expect this! I wasn’t happy when I was young.”
Jane Fonda
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anais Nin
“Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another.”
Courteney Cox
“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning
“Ageing is just another word for living.”
Cindy Joseph
“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It’s beautiful.”
Lynsay Sands
“Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.”
Marilyn Ferguson
“Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.”
John Byrne
“Ageing is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan
“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”
Arthur Wing Pinero
“No one can avoid aging but aging productively is something else.”
Katharine Graham
“When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.”
Linda Gray
“We are always the same age inside.”
Gertrude Stein
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
Ingrid Bergman
“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
“I like getting older. When you’re in your 20’s you’re really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.”
Crispin Glover
“I’m just getting older and better.”
Neal Schon
“Life`s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.”
Eartha Kitt
“I like the woman you became better than the girl you were. I like the story you’ve written on your face.”
Joanna Bourne
“One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming.”
Morgan Harper Nichols
“The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“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 good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.”
Julian Clary
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
Chili Davis
“Women sit or move to and fro, some are old, some young. The young are beautiful but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
Walt Whitman
“Maturity is not about aging, it’s a development of getting wiser; to be independent and make own decision in life.”
H.Preet
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”
Andy Rooney
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!”
Anna Kournikova
“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.”
Confucius
“Older women are like aging strudels – the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.”
Robert Farrar Capon
“Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.”
Max Ehrmann
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
Maggie Kuhn
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
Henry Ford
“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.”
Emma Thompson
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.”
Wallace Stegner
“My face carries all of my memories. Why would I erase them?”
Diane Von Furstenberg.
“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.”
Marty Buccella
“As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and then I can’t remember the other two.”
Sir Norman Wisdom
“Age is just a number. It`s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”
Joan Collins
“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.”
Eric Hoffer
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
Betty Friedan
“Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.”
Dodinsky
“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul`s own doing.”
Marie Stopes
Wrapping Up
While aging can be associated with certain hardships such as forgetfulness and loneliness, it also means freeing yourself of the responsibilities and burdens that come with youth. Sometimes, all you need is some encouraging words from those who have been there and done that to help boost your confidence and show you the positive side of it. If these quotes did just that, make sure to share them with someone else to brighten up their day.
