We don't stop playing because we grow old- We grow old because we stop playing - George Bernard Shaw
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing - Marie Stopes
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes - Frank Lloyd Wright
The hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70 - Helen Hayes (at age 83) http://www.earlytorise.com/lifer-after-50-youre-never-too-old-to-succee…
Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes -- but no, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity played by an inferior rock band howling for fame - Paul Theroux, Ghost Train To The Eastern Star
Midlife is the time when we get to the top of the ladder - only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall - Joseph Campbell
Look at anyone over 40 and you know they will be spending ever increasing time on the idea of their non-existence - Alain de Botton http://twitter.com/alaindebotton
I don't think 50 a very great age. Several good books can be written still - Virginia Woolf, http://j.mp/WkZzyW
I do this because I'm interested in saving 100,000 lives a day - Aubrey de Grey http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/01/aubrey-de-grey-ageing-…
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty beats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them, under the wind-rent clouds, upstream and down - Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek