aging

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

It__ very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you__ always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It__ growth. It__ more than the negative that you__e going to die, it__ also the positive that you understand you__e going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?

My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.