aging

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.

Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

After 25 the only thing you__l be precocious at is death.

Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?

An old person knows what it__ like to be young, but a young person doesn__ know what it__ like to be old. There__ no substitute for life experience.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

Until we__e pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything__ coming up roses _ for me and for you.

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

The days before, even the score of what you are filled in with today. What colour are you, the tangled hues of years gone by that affected you?

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

A tip for increased sales or in situations of life or death: Try to always refer to the lady as Miss. or Ms. Using the term: Ma'am could piss her off.

Make the second 50 the best 50

The Self Care Formula is simple-NITO(5R). Nutrients In & Toxins Out in the 5 Realms (Mental, Emotional, Physical, Environmental, Spiritual).

I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.

Aging masters emotions, but with experiences of aging

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rushed for time, toward what end no one asked. Their cupidity and self-love were no worse than anyone else's, but their many experiences' having taught them so little irked Lou. One hated tourists, another southerners; another despised immigrants. Even dying, they still held themselves in highest regard. Lou would have to watch herself. For this way of thinking began to look like human nature--as if each person of two or three billion would spend his last vital drop to sustain his self-importance.

I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.