Quotes About Longevity

The highest correlation for reaching ninety or hundred years of age in good shape is emotional resilience, the ability to bounce back from life's setbacks. That fits neatly with one of the qualities of healthy energy: flexibility.

Los estudios sobre la gente que ha conseguido mantener un buen estado de salud a los cien años indican que su mayor secreto es la capacidad de amoldarse. Los centenarios han sufrido los mismos reveses y decepciones que todo el mundo, pero parecen tener más facilidad para recuperarse y quitarse de encima las cargas del pasado.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.

Vince went over to Skye. "I shouldn't have pressed her so hard," she admitted, whispering. "This could be the thing that pushes Aunt Minnie around the bend." He put his arm around her shoulder. "Don't blame yourself. She's had that turn signal on for twenty years.

Be thankful to your enemies, because they're always the first ones to find your faults that you never knew about. Also wish them a long life, so that they'll see you succeed in life....there is nothing in this world that would annoy them more.

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.

invest your money wisely, exercise your body and your mind, practice safe sex, don't smoke cigarettes or get drunk in public and bad-mouth your neighbors—act as if you've got a long, happy life on Earth ahead of you.

You're not so different from Kiernan anyway. You both have lived long enough to lose friends—too long, maybe. Perhaps that's why the Minstrel wears a mask and keeps people at arm's length: he too knows the pain of loving too much.

Beyond the profound federal perks, married people make more money; we're healthier, physically and emotionally; we produce happier, more stable and more successful kids; we have more sex than our supposedly swinging single friends; we even live longer.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Take the planarian flatworm. You can slice it in two and each part will grow into a new worm. The hydra, a freshwater creature, can actually regenerate body parts, and the sea anemone doesn't appear to experience senescence at all." I

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

He turned to me and extended a hand. "Since Lillian seems to have forgotten her manners, I suppose it's up to the two of us to introduce ourselves. I'm David Ames. And you are, young lady?" If my grandmother could have incinerated him with the power of her mind, I think she would have. "Right now," I replied, "I'm someone who is very concerned for your longevity.