Ponderings About Aging
At
twenty we worry about what others think of us;
at forty we don't care about what others think
of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been
thinking about us at all.
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
©Susan Dunn, MA, Life and EQ Coach,
. Susan is the author of “Making Restitution:
For Women at Midlife,” and coaches individuals
in emotional intelligence with application to
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