Affirmations of Aging

No spring, nor summer

Beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one

Autumnal face.

John Donne

Old age, to the unlearned is winter,

To the learned, it is harvest time.

D.M. Connelly

You can’t have true splendid fullness until you are at least 70 years of age.

John Brantner

A friend is someone who knows

The song in your heart and

Plays back the words to you

When you forget how they go.

Unknown

What we believe is the most important option of all.

Norman Cousins

It is funny how you can stand more than you thought and feel yourself

inside get stronger and taste the salt of your own wounds and the

weight of things that have happened to you.

Meridel LeSeuer