Does the sight of 40 make you cry? For a good chunk of millennials, it sure does. We can’t blame them for fearing the unknown ahead, but we can prepare them with these quotes on aging gracefully. Life doesn’t slow down, but you can.
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“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” — Walt Disney
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“Growing old with someone else is beautiful, but growing old while being true to yourself is divine.”
– Dodinsky
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“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” — Samuel Ullman
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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” — Gabriel García Márquez
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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” — J.D. Salinger
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“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom. “– Jim Rohn
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“I love living. I love that I’m alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn’t wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did.”
– Maya Angelou
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“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka
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“Listen, I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t get better. You get better.” — Joan Rivers