“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” ~ Satchel Paige
“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” ~ Betty Friedan
“At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;” ~ Edward Young
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” ~ Ann Landers
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” ~ Mark Twain
“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
“We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” ~ Deepak Chopra
“The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun.” ~ Mary Baker Eddy






How about: “A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.” Pindar
I ahve always loved Saichel Paige’s quote and to go along with that how does age feel. Age doesn’t have any thought so it cannot feel. Nuumbers feel different to different people. The age 60 feels different to different people. It is one’s thought .Mrs. Eddy says” Manhood is its eternal noon, undimned by a declining sun.” We work constantly to reach that eternal noon.
We all have our own “eternal noon” (see Nancy’s response, above) and we must work out our salvation (our life purpose) from that point. If we stop to look at artificial concepts like time and age, we are paralyzed, changed into pillars of salt, like Lot’s wife (see Genesis 19:26) while fleeing from destruction.
The Ann Landers one makes me laugh, it’s so true.
The Eddy quote is characteristically ageless and prophetic, and also so true!