#older

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70. ↗

— John Patrick

#feel #i #now #older #than

I’m older now than my dad was when he was my age. Wait, that’s not right. That’s not my dad at all, that’s just some stranger hanging around in my memory.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #correct #dad #family #father

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

I realized just how much exercise and eating right make a difference in how you feel now and when you get older. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#eating #exercise #feel #get #how

It's fun when you're winning and performing well, but it's also hard because now you get older, you got responsibilities. ↗

— Rau'Shee Warren

#because #fun #get #got #hard

It’s a comforting thought knowing that no matter how old I get, I can always get older. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#comforting-thought #getting-older #age

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-gracefully #growing-older #predictability #age

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#ani-difranco #happiness #older #age

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72). ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#getting-older #old-age #age

When I grow up I want to be an old woman. ↗

— Michelle Shocked

#getting-old #getting-older #michelle-shocked #old-woman #age