Aging, Letting Go

Alex Mooney Alex Mooney

I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. —James Simpson

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. —Herman Hesse

Adolescence is perhaps nature’s way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. —Karen Savage and Patricia Adams

You don’t have to be invisible to disappear.

—Rebecca McNutt

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat. —Caecilius Statius

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes.

Not me at least. — Kaye

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. —Mark Twain

If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough!

—Phyllis Diller

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. —Samuel Ullman

I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. —Ruth Rendell Young

If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature. —Robert M. Hensel

The hand expresses what the heart already knows. —Samuel Mockbee

Everything in life is just for a while. —Philip K. Dick

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. —Walter Lord

Then, I grew old and became invisible. —Kristine Holmgren

Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps. —Bo Jackson

White hair covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young. —Honore de Balzac

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. —Mother Teresa

The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind. —William Wordsworth

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. —George Wald

How strange this fear of death.

We are never frightened at a sunset. —George MacDonald

All the trees are losing their leaves and not one of them is worried. —Donal Miller

Life moves on, and so should we. —Spencer Johnson

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on. —Eckhart Tolle