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The secret to life is to strive to remain young at heart

• While we’ve youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. Martin Buxbaum
• It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Everyone is the age of their heart. Guatemalan Proverb
• The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart. Mencius
• Up to one’s last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one’s spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.  Eliphas Levi
• Youth,  Inner child,  Getting older gracefully,  Play

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You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old …

• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.  Victor Hugo
• Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. Robert Brault
• We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson
• It’s important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle.
• You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. George Burns
• You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.  Bonnie Prudden
• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
• The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu
• Youth has no age. Pablo Picasso
• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. Tryon Edwards
• Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Albert Einstein
• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Abraham Sutzkever
• I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. Henri Frederic Amiel
• It’s not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old. Emile Coué
• Refuse to let an old person move into your body. Wayne Dyer
• You’re never too old to become younger. Mae West
• It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Marie Dressler
• It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso
• Getting older

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… for age is in the mind

• There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren
• When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. Marty Bucella
• They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
• Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. Michel de Montaigne
• The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. Mortimer Collins
• The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel
• Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Samuel Ullman
• Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair.  The way to keep young is to keep your faith young.  Keep your self-confidence young.  Keep your hope young.  Luella F. Phean
• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain
• Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• Never think oldish thoughts. It’s oldish thoughts that make a person old.  James A Farley
• Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. Frank Gelett Burgess
• Attitude,  Belief

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You’re only as old as you feel

• To be seventy years young is more hopeful than to be forty years old.  Oliver Wendell Holmes
• I don’t feel any age. Age starts in your mind and in the mind of others. Jim Casey
• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George W Curtis
• I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly, you’re as old as you feel. Elizabeth Arden
• A man is as old as he’s feeling, A woman as old as she looks. Mortimer Collins

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Your spirit in particular never needs to grow old

• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. Oscar Wilde
• What you are doesn’t age. Michael Jeffreys
• Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.  Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.  Gabriel García Márquez
• If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. James A. Garfield
• The soul never ages. My soul dances without my feet. I am the music. Alev Oguz
• May you find the fountain of youth, not as an exotic place somewhere hidden and remote, but within yourself, as the very way you walk through life. May your sorrow as well as your joy be a doorway to your greater heart. May you find your way through the fathomless mystery of your life to the source of all that is good and true. John Robbins
• Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Charles Dickens
• The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. Edmund Waller
• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. Charles Lamb
• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. Douglas Macarthur
• Ah, he murmured, “it was ever my prayer, ‘Lord, let me grow old in body, but let my soul stay young; let my voice quaver and falter, but never my hope.’ And this is how I end.” Israel Zangwill

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The trick in life is to grow up without growing old

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Chili Davis
• You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Ogden Nash
• The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel
• The real secret to de-aging our lives is to stress less and enjoy more. Rekindle the spirit of your youth. Regain your sense of wonder in all things. Laugh, explore, and play every chance you get! Che Garman

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1.  Keep learning.  Don’t stagnate

• I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
• Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing.  If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age. David Niven
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity. Harvey Ullman
• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old. Rosalyn S. Yalow
• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner
• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur
• Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and use our human abilities. . . . In sum, our development does not necessarily end at any age.  We can continue to develop into our eighties, even to our nineties.  Betty Friedan
• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy
• When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, “I am still learning.” Simone de Beauvoir
• You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.  Timothy Leary
• Learning

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2.  Remain cheerful, enthusiastic, loving, hopeful and optimistic

• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.  Robert Browning
• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent… that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young.  When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.  Douglas MacArthur
• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Douglas MacArthur
• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau
• Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur
• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. Aldous Huxley
• An old man in love is like a flower in winter. Portuguese Proverb
• A heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb
• Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
• Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. Charles Dickens
• They who are of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressures of age. Plato
• You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• Cheerfulness,  Love,  Hope,  Optimism

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3.  Keep your sense of fun and playfulness

• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.  Doug Larson
• You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard
• We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
• It’s never to late to have a happy childhood. Bruce Williamson
• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Fun,  Enjoyment,  Play

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4.  Don’t stop dreaming and don’t succumb to regrets

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. S. Lewis
• A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore
• It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. Robert Brault
• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand
• Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Edward Young
• Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. Doug Ivester
• Dreaming

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5.  Remain creative

• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the child inside alive. John Cassavetes
• I never feel age… If you have creative work, you don’t have age or time.  Louise Nevelson
• Creativity

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6.  Keep active and useful

• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Mauroisno
• I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Sir Angus Grossart
• If you want to stay youthful, stay useful. Harvey Mackay
• Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
• Most of the changes commonly associated with old people are really not dependent on the passage of time; they result mostly from disuse. Walter M. Bortz II, M.D.
• You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things. Rosamunde Pilcher
• The answer to old age is to keep one’s mind busy and to go on with one’s life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel
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7.  Remain relaxed, calm and stress free

• If you ask what the single most important key to longevity is, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. George Burns
• Those who are of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.  Plato
• Relaxation,  Calmness, Stress

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8.  Remain true to your ideals

• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Samuel Ullman
• Ideals,  Principles

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9.  Keep love alive

• Those who love deeply never grown old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Arthur Wing Pinero
• Love

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10.  Remain open to new ideas and experiences

• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck
• If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy
• The opposite of old is not young. The opposite of old is new. And as long as we continue to experience the new, we will gloriously inhabit all of the ages that we are. Andrea J. Lee
• When they tell me I’m too old to do something, I attempt it immediately.  Pablo Picasso
• You are as old as the last time you changed your mind. Tim O’Leary
• Openness, Ideas,  Embrace new experiences

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11. Stay close to nature

• A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. Lydia Maria Child
• Nature

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12.  Raise your state of consciousness

• Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness.  When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes.  We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger.  Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer.  We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.  Marianne Williamson
• Consciousness

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• At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards. H Jackson Brown, Jr
• Frowns don’t produce friends, but they do produce wrinkles. There is no need to look old before your time when a smile can produce amazing results. Jim Hartness
• This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.  Robert F. Kennedy
• Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.  Charles Dickens
• It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. John O’Donohue
• When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.  Victor Hugo

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• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball
• Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. Jim Fiebig
• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry
• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde
• Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese. Billie Burke
• Aging (funny quotes)

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