Quotes About Aging

Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments

From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhill, even if it was a very gentle slope, coming to rest at a place of disappointment. Some spheres of an individual's life might have gone spectacularly well but there would always be an obstinate slab of disappointment in another department - a stalled career, inability to have kids, a dismal marriage, whatever.

a lonely old man.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

Kalau dirawat dengan benar, banyak hal di dunia ini yang makin tua makin berharga. Makin hidup dan malah makin enak.

Sometimes I worry that I'll slide back into the mindless rotisserie of work and projects that guided me in my old house... that I'll grow numb to the way nature can leave me awestruck. I worry that I'll fall asleep at the switch, only to wake up years later and find that I can't remember what I did last week or the month before that, nor do I recognize the old lady staring back at me in the mirror.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

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.

El pesar nos envejece prematuramente, cuando estas en deuda emocional eres pesimista con respecto al futuro, y aun en tus años de plenitud, ansias volver al pasado para remediar las carencias de amor y oportunidad que sufriste. a veces ansias mas atención, pasar mas tiempo con alguien que ya no esta, tener la oportunidad de hablar francamente y desprenderte de tu carga emocional, o solo resolver tu confusión descubriendo, por fin, lo que realmente ocurrió

Mantén la esperanza de conservar tu memoria intacta. Resístete a expectativas más bajas, como las de la gente que piensa que la pérdida de memoria es algo «normal».

relacionar el envejecimiento y la muerte es un disparate, y también una equivocación. El envejecimiento es algo que le ocurre al cuerpo; la muerte le ocurre al yo. Así pues, es probable que la persona que posee un elevado sentido del yo, que ha investigado profundamente la gran pregunta de «¿quién soy?», afronte la muerte con muchísima más calma.

Cuando dejas de crecer, envejeces.» Los nuevos conocimientos, las habilidades nuevas, las nuevas maneras de mirar el mundo mantienen en crecimiento a la mente y al cuerpo; mientras así sea, se expresa la tendencia natural de ser nuevo a cada segundo.

This is a powerful metaphor for how our fear of aging and our deep belief that we are meant to grow old may get transformed into aging itself, as a self-fulfilling prophecy generated by a withering self-image.

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.

aprendido. Si permaneces alerta, tendrás un cerebro sano que seguirá apoyándote a medida que envejeces. Nuestra expectativa debe ser permanecer alerta, y no el miedo al deterioro y la senilidad.

The two major threats to well-being—illness and aging—are constantly present. Out of sight, without your knowing it, your present good health is being silently undermined. Abnormal processes are taking place in everyone's body at a microscopic level. Anomalies inside a cell that affect only a cluster of molecules or the shape of one enzyme are virtually undetectable.

verás que las células viejas son como mapas de la experiencia de una persona

A cierta edad- afirmó Lewis Thomas cierta vez -,está en nuestra naturaleza desgastarnos, caer en trastornos y morir y eso es todo.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

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.