Quotes About Gratitude

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.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

At my age, I'm just happy to be named the greatest living anything.

We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

The best age is the age you are.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

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

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.