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Quotes About Longevity

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.
~ Alan Shearer
A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.
~ Raymond Moody
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
~ Confucius
Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
~ Dan Millman
Meditation is the best means of elongating life
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.
~ Bernard Hopkins
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
~ Jackie Chan
Being alive at 87 is quite an accomplishment if you're curious, interested, seeing the fun out of life, doing things, having a purpose.
~ Art Linkletter
Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
~ Jeanne Calment
People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.
~ John Malkovich
Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.
~ Kenneth H. Cooper
And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.
~ Marcella Hazan
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
~ Robert Carlyle
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
~ James Joseph Sylvester
Life is short, the art long.
~ Hippocrates
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
~ David Ogilvy
Allah made joining and connecting with the kinship and cognation, the cause of lengthening of life.
~ Fatima bint Muhammad
Come on 'long prosperous life!'
~ Mitch Hedberg
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
~ Publilius Syrus
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.
~ Louis Cozolino