Quotes About Longevity

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

If you're lucky, and you're like me, you'll be old much longer than you are young, and you will enjoy the wisdom that comes from experience. But you have to plan for that. That's why it's important to find something you love to do.

Slow but steady wins the race.

We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters what we achieve, how rare and unfair are our professional failures, how rife with misunderstandings are our relationships, how deep are our sorrows. Melodrama is individually always the order of the day.

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Never have they publicly fielded the one question that truly preoccupies them: "what is it like to have been married awhile?

In the wake of the affair, Rabih adopts a different view of the purpose of marriage. As a younger man he thought of it as a consecration of a special set of feelings: tenderness, desire, enthusiasm, longing. However, he now understands that it is also, and just as importantly, an institution, one which is meant to stand fast from year to year without reference to every passing change in the emotions of its participants.

one of the first light bulbs ever manufactured remains lit, over a hundred years after it was first switched on.

It's strange to learn that in Livermore, California, one of the first light bulbs ever manufactured remains lit, over a hundred years after it was first switched on. In the earliest example of planned obsolescence, it took a group decision by light-bulb manufacturers in the 1950s to specifically limit the life of all subsequently made bulbs to a few years, in order to ensure that people would have to come back and buy more.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

The key to longevity is the purity of one's heart.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.