Aging, Letting Go

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Alex Mooney Alex Mooney



I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. —James Simpson


Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. —Herman Hesse




Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. —Karen Savage and Patricia Adams



You don’t have to be invisible to disappear. —Rebecca McNutt



Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat. —Caecilius Statius



Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least. — Kaye


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. —Mark Twain





If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough! —Phyllis Diller



Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. —Samuel Ullman



I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. —Ruth Rendell Young




If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature. —Robert M. Hensel



The hand expresses what the heart already knows. —Samuel Mockbee


Everything in life is just for a while. —Philip K. Dick




Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. —Walter Lord



Then, I grew old and became invisible. —Kristine Holmgren


Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. —Bo Jackson




White hair covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. —Honore de Balzac



Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. —Mother Teresa



The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. —William Wordsworth




I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. —George Wald




How strange this fear of death. We are never frightened at a sunset. —George MacDonald



All the trees are losing their leaves and not one of them is worried. —Donal Miller


Life moves on, and so should we. —Spencer Johnson



Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. —Eckhart Tolle


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