stages of life on Aging

Speaking on aging, the Catholic nun Joan Chittister has this to say: One thing this period is not about is diminishment, though physical diminishment is surely a natural part of it. It is, instead, ...

Do you remember the first time you started to feel your mortality? Or perhaps, the first time you realized their was something wrong with your body? Your mind? At some point (for me it was my twenties...

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

In recent research by the National Geographic Society and the National Institute on Aging, scientists interviewed some of the oldest and healthiest people on earth and observed where they live. Many o...

Earlier this week I led a workshop for a national gathering of pastors. My subject, as you might guess, was church ministry with people in the third third of life. My workshop was entitled, “Unlocking...

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

As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, tho’, in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking younger, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Old age is just as important and meaningful a part of God’s perfect will as is youth. God is every bit as interested in the old as the young.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Neuroimaging has shown that as we age, our cognitive center of gravity shifts from the imaginative right brain to the logical left brain. At some point, most of us top living out of imagination and st...

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are no less than the pleasures of youth.

Fancy and humor, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

To me, old age is fifteen years older than I am. See also quotes on Experience.

There are two periods in our lives when we have exceptional freedom: at college age and when we begin our retirement years. At those times, we have relatively few restrictions and obligations.

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members...

I’ve reached the age where happy hour is a nap.

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

Most people who live to old age do so not because they have beaten cancer, heart disease, depression or diabetes. Instead, the long-lived avoid serious ailments altogether through a series of steps th...

I’ve reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me.