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"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter".

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.

The older I grow, the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

True friendship is like peeing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth.

"you have to let your hair down sometimes, you just have to be careful how low you let it go." mars4554

Your friends may lie to you, your mirror deceive you, but a flight of stairs will be brutally frank.

"Youth is the Gift of Nature, but Age is a Work of Art."

'Now' is the only thing we really ever have.

14,610 Day Old, but who's counting? (40 yrs) (18,263 = 50 yrs) (21,915 = 60yrs)

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

A person dictated her age...She can be a boring bitch at 20 or with a teenage giggle at 40... Still in love at 50 ... trying to look 25 at 60....forget the number of years behind your age... Dictate it with your outlook in life!

A traveler crossed a frozen stream in trembling fear one day; Later another drove across, and whistled all the way. Great and little faith alike were granted safe convoy; One had pangs of needless fear, the other all the joy.

A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age.

Adults are obsolete children

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is a pretty high price to pay for maturity.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you.

Age isn't important...unless you're CHEESE!

AGING IS A GIFT FROM YESTERDAY AND TODAY...SEEING EVERYTHING BEFORE YOUR DYING DAY

Aging is a privilege, not a predicament.

All children are artists. Th problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

All grown-ups were once children. (But few of them remember it.)

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Another candle on your cake? Well, that's no cause to pout. Be glad that you have strength enough To blow the damn thing out.

Another year of collecting memories

As long as you feel young at heart, age is just a number.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it!

As you get older three things happen: first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Being "over the hill" is much better than being under it!

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

Birthdays are like Boogers... the more you have the harder it is to breathe.

Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

Cherish all of your memories for they are the experiences that moulded you.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Don't be so full of adult there is no room for the child in you.

Don't count the years...count the memories.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Don't worry about wrinkles they're just antique smiles.

Ever get the feeling your stuff strutted off without you?

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain one once he grows up.

Every day above ground is a good day.

Few Women Admit Their Age, Few Men Act Theirs.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Friends... are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Gray hair is a glorious crown won by a righteous life.

Grow old along with me. The best is yet to be.

Growing old is mandatory ~ Growing up is optional.

Growing Old Is Mandatory... Growing Up Is Optional!

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!!

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Growing older is mandatory... Growing up, is optional.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

how to define love?

I am so old I can laugh, cough, sneeze, and pee all at the same time.

I Can't Remember! Just a line to say I'm living, that I'm not among the dead, though I'm getting more forgetful and mixed up in the head. I got used to my arthritis, to my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals but God I miss my mind, For sometimes I can't remember, when I stand at the foot of the stairs, if I must go up for something, or have just come down from there. And before the fridge so often, my poor mind is filled with doubt, have I just put food away, or have I come to take some out? And there's the time when it is dark with my nightcap on my head, I don't know if I'm retiring, or just getting out of bed. So if it's my turn to writ...

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

I intend to live forever-so far so good.

I live in the present...I only remember the past and anticipate the future.

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

I smile because I don't know what the heck is going on.

I WANT TO DIE WHEN MY ALL MY CHILDREN HAS THEIR OWN CHILDREN. WHEN I CAN BE SURE THEY WILL FIND MY UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WITH THEM AGAIN. THEN I CAN REST.

I'm aging like fine wine--complex and a little fruity.

I'm over the hill but the climb was terrific!

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

In dog years I'm dead.

In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

In Pig Years I'd be a football

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

In youth we learn; in old age we understand.

Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the heck happened.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

It is not the haste of ones journey, but rather what he does along the way, that determines whether or not he reaches his destination.

It is not the length of life, but depth of life.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

It takes a long time to become young.

It's better to be gone and not forgotten than the other way around

It's not how old you are, but how you are old.

It's not the years in your life but the life in you years that counts.

LET NOT TIME REMIND YOU OF YOUR AGE..USE IT TO DO MORE BEFORE YOU GO. FEAR NOT YOUR AGE...BE PROUD FOR ALL THE YEARS YOU STAYED BEFORE OTHERS. AGING ALONE HAS THE GIFT OF WISDOM.

Life in not a matter of counting years, it's a matter of making years count.

Life reveals her beauty one precious miracle at a time.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO!, What a ride!!"

Life was so much easier when my clothes didn’t match and boys had cooties.

Live in the moment.

May the years ahead give you daily glimpses of His abundant grace and love

May you live all the days of your life.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Nature gives you the face you have at 20; it is up to you to inherit the face you have at 50.

No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandad pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.

No matter how you look at your life today....Your Life remains the best thing that ever happened to you because the totality remains your greatest achievement...

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Nobody loves life like him who is growing old.

O day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Old age does not announce itself

Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you've put in.

Old enough to know better and still too young to care.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated, and more intoxicating!

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others

Retirement: when you stop living at work and begin to work at living.

So Life's year begins and closes; Days, though short'ning, still can shine; What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

So many candles...so little cake

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

THE AGE DOESN'T MEDDLE WITH THE MIND....ENJOY YOUR REMAINING YOUTH AT 60.

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

The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

The essence of nostalgia is an awareness that what has been will never be again.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The man who views the world the same way at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

The more candles the bigger the wish

The older you get, the greater you were.

The only thing I regret about my past in the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

The past is always going to be the way it was...stop trying to change it.

The payola in old age is to be able to draw on the thousands of deposits of happiness that are stored in your bank account of memories.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The years go by and love grows with each memory we make.

There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen.

There's no need for personality to grow old. The things is not to remain adolescent but to work toward maturity, to appraise life honestly with experience, not naively but critically, and at the same time keep this openness, this willingness to face reality, this interest in life and not grow old. Our whole thrust should be toward the future, and that's what typifies youth.

Things do not change; we change.

thinking only of yourself-immaturity. realizing others are more important than you are-maturity.

Those aren't gray hairs your color blind.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

Time flies - whether you're having fun or not!

To be able to look back on ones past Life with satisfaction is to live there.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

We (I) don't suffer from insanity...we (I) enjoy it!!

We are always the same age inside.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

We're adults... When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

What Makes a Man a Man, A friend once wondered. Is it his origins, the way he comes to life? I don't think so. Its the choices he makes; not how he starts things but how he decides to end things.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange --- my youth.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

When I was young I could remember anything...whether it happened or not.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Wrinkled Was Not One of the Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew up!

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a present.

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.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

You are only as old as you feel.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

You can answer your exact age proudly and vibrant when you are in your 20's... but when you turn 40's you let them answer their own question when you say "Guess"...at 50, they are apologetic to ask your age..at 60, it's the health factor that comes in asking our age...so they'd smile and try to flatter you and say You're still strong at you're age , which was never mention.

You can only be young once, But you can always be immature.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

You don't quit laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You may grow out of almost everything in your life, but never your childhood.

You will find, as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

You're never too old to lick a lollipop, read the comics or celebrate your birthday.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.” Martin Buxbaum quotes

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”

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