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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth—Palmer

Young men want to be faithful & are not; old men want to be faithless & cannot.—Oscar Wilde

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.—Mark Twain

Old age is when you first realize other people’s faults are no worse than your own—Edgar A. Shoaff

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

 To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion

Old age plants more wrinkles in the mind than in the face.—Montaigne

We hope to grow old, yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live,& afraid to die.

The evening of life brings with it its lamp.—Joseph Toubert

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom,& one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living—Amiel

 

Add life to your years, not years to your life.

 

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, to love for ever is to live forever. It is great to be great & greater to be human.

 

You will find as you look back on your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

 

If you want to be happy for ever, enjoy what you do or do what you enjoy. Love & leave anger, laugh & live longer.

He who has health has hope & he who has hope has everything.

 

Multiply your joys, divide your sorrows,that is the Mathematics of life.

The toughest part of dieting is not watching what you eat,it is watching what your friends eat.

It is not your position that makes you happy or unhappy,it is your disposition.

I had 3 chairs in my house;one for Solitude,two for Friendship,three for Society—Thoreau

Old age gives a golden opportunity for discovering ourselves.

 

The Senior citizen should relinquish their executive thoughts after retirement.

It is like, the father will be done by his son as done by his father to his father. Old is gold if it is kept glittering.

 

Fear of ageing has a bigger effect on life span than high blood pressure. Positive self-perception can prolong life.—Dr Becca Levy

 

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let these not be written upon their heart. The spirit should not grow old—James Garfield

 

It is strange that the one thing that every person looks forward to, namely old age,is one thing for which no preparation he made.—John Deway

 

Every day, in every way, I  am getting better & better—Emile Coue

 

For age has opportunities no less

Than youth, though in another dress

And as the evening twilight fades away

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day—Dr William Evans

 

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age regret.

 

 Our purpose is to heighten awareness of the contribution that older persons make to society & the support they provide to their communities, & in doing so to alter the theory of ageing from protection to that of development & active participation in a society for all Ages —United Nations ,1997, 20 November

 

There is a large ever-growing population of senior citizens, with time, energy & talents, all dressed up but nowhere to go—American author

 

The mind is in its own place,& in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven—John Milton   

               –R.B.KISHORE