Inspire Uplift
Let’s start with a question Satchel Paige asked all the oldies.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are????
What does this mean?
It simply means your age is the matter of your brain and not the body, unless you are a cheese. 😛
Hahaha. Well, think about it,
Though our body brings some challenges when we age, but isn’t life all about challenges???
See what Doris Lessing says,
“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.”
Aging is nothing but the most extraordinary process in which you become the person you actually are!
Do you agree????
So, if you are feeling down because you are 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or so on… remember, you are not cursed but blessed.
It is you who have been lucky from rest of the population couldn’t live to enjoy this part of age.
According to UN, world population of people who live up to 65 years or more has increased only 9 percent by 2019?
However, if you still feel down, we are here to Inspire and Uplift your spirits with these 15 beautiful quotes telling you that old age is nothing but a mare reflection of blessing.
Here you go:
1. “Getting older is like climbing a mountain. You’re a little bit out of breath, but the view is much better.” (Ingrid Bergman)
2. “We are always the same age inside.” (Gertrude Stein)
3. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” (Les Brown)
4. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
5. “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.” (C.S Lewis)
6. “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments, and most of the time, we are ageless.” (Milan Kundera)
7. “He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” (Plato)
8. If living is an art, all older adults we know are Picasso of this art. (Komal Roma)
9. “Forty’s nothing, at fifty you’re in your prime, sixty’s the new forty, and so on.” (Julian Barnes)
10. “Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials, and illnesses. (Maggie Kuhn)
11. “Growing old is a journey best undertaken with a sense of humor and curiosity.” (Irma Kurtz)
12. “Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, aren’t less than the pleasures of youth.” (W Somerset Maugham)
13. “I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.” (Mason Cooley)
14. “To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” (Bernard Baruch)
15. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. (Emily Dickinson)
In the End:
You should remember that “Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as a thought.” It means you only become old when you think that you are old…
Can you tell, “How young can you die of old age?”
Nobody can! The longer life you have, the more blessed you are!
So, tuck these motivations in your head whenever you feel bad of your age and spend it with full zeal and enthusiasm. Because, no matter what, age is just a number!!!
Also, everyone else should remember what Hosea Ballou said:
“We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.”
Help aged people you know to enjoy this part of their lives. 😊