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“Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.”
― Scott Douglas, Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

“The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another鈥攊t's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.”
― Lynda I Fisher

“In the travellers鈥� world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability 鈥� to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour 鈥� seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge 鈥� where to sleep? 鈥� has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller鈥檚 precise location and welfare 鈥� and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home.
Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity.”
― Dervla Murphy

“Oh, no, no, you've got that all wrong. You're not required to respect elders. After all, most people are idiots, regardless of age. In tribal cultures, we just make sure that elders remain an active part of the culture, even if they're idiots. Especially if they're idiots. You can't just abandon your old people, even if they have nothing intelligent to say. Even if they're crazy.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Toughest Indian in the World

“It takes courage to dream, to face our futures and the limiting forces within us. It takes courage to be determined that, as we slow down physically, we are going to grow even more psychologically and spiritually. Courage, the philosopher Aristotle taught us, is the most important of all the virtues, because without it we can鈥檛 practice any of the others. Courage is the nearest star that can guide our growth. Maya Angelou said we must be courageous about facing and exploring our personal histories. We must find the courage to care and to create internally, as well as externally, and as she said, we need the courage 鈥渢o create ourselves daily as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings.”
― Bud Harris

“We get smarter and more creative as we age, research shows. Our brain's anatomy, neural networks, and cognitive abilities can actually improve with age and increased life experiences. Contrary to the mythology of Silicon Valley, older employees may be even more productive, innovative, and collaborative than younger ones... Most people, in fact, have multiple cognitive peaks throughout their lives.”
― Rich Karlgaard, Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

“Make peace with your past so you don't mess up the present!”
― Marcia Casar Friedman

“At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me.”
― C.J. Heck

“THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...”
― Robert Wesley Miller

“When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life鈥檚 鈥渋mperative to grow鈥� personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.”
― Bud Harris

“Getting older happens suddenly. It's like swimming out to sea and realising that the shore you're making for isn't the shore where you started out.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“Now that you鈥檙e old, cut yourself some slack, would you?

Let yourself off the hook.

Give yourself a break.

You don鈥檛 have to do it all anymore. Take it easy for a change.

It鈥檚 OK with the rest of the world. So why not you?

For the first time in your life, do what you want.

Not what everyone else thinks you should.

Not what you think everyone else thinks you should.

Do what you want.

Excuse yourself. Say no. Back out. Beg off. Stay home. Take a rain check. Take a nap. Watch the ball game on TV.

Anything but what you鈥檇 rather not do but feel you have to for everyone else's sake but your own. And then feel bad about having done it. That's plain wrong.

And ask for some help when you need it: 'It鈥檚 too heavy.' 'It's too far.' Too near. Too cold. Too hot. Too bright. Too dark.

Whatever.

It's OK because there's always going to be something you need help with anymore.

And be grateful for the helping hand. You'll find more and more people extend one to you these days. Whatever the reason for accepting you鈥檝e got the best excuse in the world. The only one you鈥檒l ever need:

'Hey, I鈥檓 old.”
― Lionel Fisher, Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

“[H]umili茅 par la vie, qui l'un apr猫s l'autre avait souffl茅 ses r锚ves, [Don Ruggero] mettait la d茅mence entre sa d茅faite et lui.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, A Coin in Nine Hands

“I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.”
― Linda Robinson, Chantepleure

“To think that Allan was going to enjoy one more breakfast in his life without porridge! That was good news indeed.”
― Jonas Jonasson

“In the real world, in the grand scheme of life, this year is going to count for exactly nothing. These are the friendships that don't last and the choices that don't count. All those things we freak out about now, like who's going to be class president and are we going to win the game this weekend- there's going to be a time when we can't remember caring about them. In exactly three hundred and sixty five days from right now, wearing your letter jacket will make you look like the lamest of losers.”
― Jen Klein

“What's the worst that can happen?”
― Gill Puckridge

“You make it to a hundred and ten you can do whatever you want. White people haven't killed you yet, you get a free pass.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“If white people haven't killed you yet, you can do what you want. You didn't have to reach a hundred years to get to that place. In a world this low, dumb, and cruel, every day white people ain't killed you yet is a win. It was after midnight. He'd survived another gauntlet.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.”
― Ian Lamont

“Age is a number ... LIFE is all ATT-i-tude!”
― LinDee Rochelle, Rock and Roll Radio DJs: The Swinging Sixties

“Studies show that entering or re-entering the workforce at later ages is more difficult than at younger ages-INTERVIEW JOB APPLICATION AND RESUME WRITING TIPS FOR JOBSEEKERS 50 AND OVER, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK”
― V J Smith, GREAT SALAD RECIPES

“You're not getting old, you're getting better...Seniors Rock!”
― Nanette L. Avery

“You're not getting old, you're getting better. Seniors Rock!”
― Nanette L. Avery

“Romance among the chronologically challenged is giggle fodder. For the youthful, lovelorn and wrinkly don鈥檛 blend, or not without farce.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The young were at least smooth-skinned and straight; the old were flabby and wrinkled. At least, he thought, they should pony up some piece of timeless wisdom to make up for their wretchedness: yet most shambled from breakfast to bedtime in the same dumb state that had taken them through adolescence. A fair number had grown up quite simply dimwits, and stubbornly remained so even in their dotage. He wanted to venerate them, for with their lined faces and dignified bearing they reminded him of august men of state. But then they spoke.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream

“He thought how the world would feel if it were populated solely by elderly women--a world of forbearance, where all touches were careful.”
― Lydia Millet, How the Dead Dream