Quotes About Perspective

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

To flatter a young man, tell him that you thought that he was older than he is. To flatter an old woman, tell her that you thought that she was younger than she is.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.