1. "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." -- Sir Arthur Pinero
2. "Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked." -- Pearl Buck
3. "Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life." -- Carl Jung
4. "Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling." -- Edna Ferber
5. "There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare." -- Horace Rumpole
6. "One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them." --Virginia Woolf
7. "How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender." -- William James
8. "I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find -- at the age of fifty, say -- that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about....It is as a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." -- Agatha Christie
9. "We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations." -- Anais Nin
10. "How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable." --Robert McAfee Brown
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