> "You don't get older, you get better.” - Shirley Bassey, Wales, 1955. pic.twitter.com/3905pNMiax [https://t.co/3905pNMiax] — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) June 21, 2019 [https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1142145497215504385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> Old age is always wakeful — Moby Dick (@MobyDickatSea) May 25, 2019 [https://twitter.com/MobyDickatSea/status/1132086650698444800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “Be less afraid of getting older — way, way less afraid. Our fears are way out of proportion to the reality, and we squander a ridiculous amount of our youth worrying about it.” — Ashton Applewhite https://t.co/ASCfSe7AKe — TED Talks (@TEDTalks) May 15, 2019 [https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/…
> “Be sick and tired of yesterday’s self”—Basho, as rendered by Jeff Robbins on basho4humanity. — Pico Iyer (@PicoIyer) January 30, 2019 [https://twitter.com/PicoIyer/status/1090630030470766592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Nothing I saw when I read Narrow Road to the Interior struck me with the immediacy of…
> I just learned Donald Hall died last night. He was 89. Below is his poem "Affirmation" "To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes..." Here's the story: https://t.co/PGvDjMfWiB…
> “It’s good to be old. Every day is an adventure.” https://t.co/JeTdIarHWN — Garrison Keillor (@g_keillor) November 15, 2017 [https://twitter.com/g_keillor/status/930630182871764993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> “You know, the older you get, the younger you want to be.” —John le Carré https://t.co/En6xm1UtyW — The Paris Review (@parisreview) November 14, 2017 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/930480949657198592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
> "Aging is the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity." https://t.co/FgZtqCJEKc — TED Talks (@TEDTalks) September 14, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/908325325637120000]…