Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Emily Dickinson

old age, suddenly, gradually, thought

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

Mark Twain

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

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

Mark Twain

issue of mind over matter

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

Growing old, habit

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

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