Aging

The first hundred years are the hardest.

—Wilson Mizner

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there.

―Tom Waits

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

—Bob Hope

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The years teach much which the days never knew.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

―Anaïs Nin

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.

―Winston Churchill

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I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms
of my trousers rolled.

T.S. Eliot

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This gettin’ old stuff is gettin’ old.

—Rex Williams

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But I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.

Bob Dylan

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Kim Gordon just cured my fear of aging.

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May you live all the days of your life.

—Jonathan Swift

Poem: Counting Backwards

Poem: Older, Younger, Both

Poem: Grounded

Poem: Old Enough

Poem: On the Wing

The puzzling gap between how old you are and how old you think you are

The amazing fertility of the older mind

Aging is inevitable, so why not do it joyfully?

The city looks different when you’re older

25 ways to live well into old age

When does someone become ‘old’?

An ode to middle age

The two choices that keep a midlife crisis at bay

The seven habits that lead to happiness in old age

The new old age

Making aging positive

Kim Gordon’s coolest act yet