​This is one of my very favorite quotes: “Even after the worst storm the birds sing and so should we.  God wants us to be happy.” Rose...

Virginia Woolfe: “The compensation of growing old [is] that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the...

She thinks of herself taller, younger, thinner, and still a beginner, a doer, desiring to play parts that are risque, even a wee bit...

Meditation teacher, Light Watkins, on acting your age: "The advice shouldn't be to act your age. It should be to act your spirit. Your...

Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer who died …….April 2022, she spoke at her home to an interviewer from The Financial Times, who was...

“The act of forgetting crafts and hones data in the brain as if carving a state from a block of marble.  It enables us to make sense of...

Maybe that's what it takes to live to ninety-nine.  In reading her recent obituary in The NY Times, it was that quote that I loved:  "In...

Comedy is not a philosophy of despair or pessimism, but one which permits people to respond with health and clear vision despite the...

“The advice of the old is like the winter sun:  it sheds light but does not warm us.” Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of ​If you...

Scores of studies have shown that people tend to look on the bright side as they become older. Scientists refer to this effect as the...

Once I understood that I must wrestle with the real enemy–time, aging, death–then I came to realize that Mathilde is neither adversary or...

"At 30, I exercised to look good. In my 50s, I exercised to stay fit. In my 70s, to stay ambulatory. In my 80s, to avoid assisted living....

Keep active in body and mind.  Be positive. Don’t stop working. Go to church (or at least kneel at something–hug a crystal if you want). ...

“The world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed...There is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.” French novelist, Annie Erneaux, 82,...

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well." ​      ...

“The trouble with this job is that you can watch yourself & your friends growing older in full colour, close up.” ​                      ...

"When she was 90, she declined the gift of a beautiful shawl, saying it would 'Make her look too old.'  When she was 95, six weeks before...

Aim to die broke. Give to your beneficiaries before you die; it’s more fun and useful. Spend it all. Your last check should go to the...

"Our use of age as a block to creative work interlocks with our toxic finished-product thinking.” Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way

That fancy name for the urge to jump from the top of the Empire State, climb over the rail of the Golden Gate, step off the rim of the...