inspiration for wanna be centenarians+

"I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun." — Virginia Woolf

"The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible." — Judith Regan

"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." — Bob Hope

"You can't help getting older, but you don’t have to get old." — George Burns

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." — Mark Twain

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." — Luis Bunuel

"I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do." — Phyllis Diller

"As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." — Sir Norman Wisdom

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind." — Timothy Leary

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." — Steven Wright

"I've reached an age where my train of thought often leaves the station without me." — Maxine

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." — Chili Davis

"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." — Charles Schulz

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am." — Oliver Wendell Holmes

"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it." — George Burns

"In a moving world, readaptation is the price of longevity." — George Santayana

"The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing!" — Sophie Tucker

"Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!" — Anna Kournikova

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." — Theodore Roosevelt

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely." — Ogden Nash

"Life is love — enjoy it." — Sathya Sai Baba

"Growth is the only evidence of life." — John Henry Newman

"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life." — Jeanne Calment

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!" — Ingrid Bergman

"Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future." — Satya Nadella

"One of the insightful quotes on longevity from Laini Taylor says, 'Long life is a burden when it's spent in misery.' The key to a happy and beautiful life is not the years one has lived but how enrichingly and joyfully one has lived each day."

"The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy." — Lin Yutang

"The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back." — Norman Rockwell

"The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart." — Dalai Lama

"To sustain longevity, you have to evolve." — Aries Spears

"Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get." — Keith Richards

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength." — Betty Friedan

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances." — Frank Lloyd Wright

"Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it." — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical." — Dan Buettner

"Longevity is the key to success." — Ed Seykota

"To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot." — Rob Lowe

"A long life is a life well spent." — Leonardo da Vinci

"How do you live a long life? Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast." — Harry S. Truman

"Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older." — Louise Hay

"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived." — Martin Luther King Jr.

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