Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
You have to embrace getting older.
You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Live well, Ichigo. Live well, age well, go bald well, and die after me. And... if you can, die smiling.
If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.
I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]
I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
I don't feel bad or scared about getting older in terms of my looks or anything like that. I'm not afraid of my face changing. I enjoy seeing my face change. I think it's really interesting. I wouldn't want to have same face for my whole life. It would be boring to look at the same face in the mirror for 80 years.
There is a way to grow old and still have dignity.
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop.
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.
I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nails because I loved Jeanne Moreau. I always wanted to be older; I always added years to my life. For the longest time, if people thought I was older, I would take it as a compliment.
