34 Inspiring Quotes On Aging

As the years pass, the journey of aging transforms from an abstract concept into an intimate reality, rich with wisdom and experience. While society often focuses on the challenges that come with getting older, there is a profound beauty to be found in each new phase of life. Embracing this natural progression opens the door to personal growth and newfound insight. In this collection, we've gathered 34 inspiring quotes on aging that celebrate the grace, strength, and elegance that accompany the onward march of time. Whether you're seeking comfort, motivation, or a fresh perspective, these reflections offer a heartfelt reminder of the enduring spirit and potential that lie within each stage of life.

1. “I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .” - John Stuart Mill

2. “Je suis partout où je suis.” - Nicole Brossard

3. “Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.” - Peter Høeg

4. “Be — don't try to become” - Osho

5. “A positive needs a negative to complete its cycle, as the Moon needs an embodiment of itself, the Sun, to complete the cycle of its illusory essence, the Earth. Now if the earth is in dire straits, is bombing the moon to discover whether water is ‘perceived’ in the natural stance of humans an intelligent move?” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

6. “Every form is an image. Every image is a name. Every name is an attribute, every attribute a verb. Every verb forms the sentence to be read on Judgement Day, from the very Qur’aanulQariim that is found within the breastplate of all that is ‘created’ in the form of humankind. Every object be it animated or non-animated is an image!!” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

7. “What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.” - Clarice Lispector

8. “Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.” - Rollo May

9. “Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.” - Anatole France

10. “Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.” - Robert Fanney

11. “...mert maguk voltak a létezés, miközben a létezésből mégis ki voltak zárva, vagyis oly közel estek a létezéshez, hogy azonossá váltak vele, és a létezés nem látszik soha, így hát ha itt voltak is, amikor nem voltak itt, belőlük soha nem maradt semmi, csak a vágyakozás, hogy jöjjenek, csak a félelem, hogy jönni fognak, csak az emlékük maradt, hogy jártak itt, de a legfájóbb az volt, nézett föl Genji herceg unokája az égre, hogy amelyik egyszer itt volt, az soha többé nem jött vissza.” - László Krasznahorkai

12. “If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.” - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

13. “Le voile est essentielle pour le monde, soit par l'organisme, ou au moyen de la connaissance” - AainaA-Ridtz A R

14. “They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” - Hermann Hesse

15. “Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.” - Alan Wilson Watts

16. “I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.” - Therese Doucet

17. “The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)” - Yasutani Roshi

18. “Whatever you do don't let anybody talk you into doing something about the way you look ever.” - John Casablancas

19. “For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.” - George Eliot

20. “Are you doing life or are you living?” - Dale Forehand

21. “There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.” - Samantha

22. “Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his endless path his form is also transformed, just as everything that lives in nature was transformed in him.” - Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

23. “When a lack of white blood cells exposes the horizon of being, one has to make a choice. To cloister yourself away in a germ-free environment, alive but alone, or to embrace the woman you love and catch your death of cold at the marriage ceremony? What a great show. It’s inner-directed script was unmatched by any other soap opera.” - Benson Bruno

24. “And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.” - Martin Heidegger

25. “Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.” - Werner Erhard

26. “You can't do everything but you can do something!” - Jeff Dixon

27. “Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.” - Neal Shusterman

28. “But what is great can only begin great.” - Martin Heidegger

29. “This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.” - Brock Clarke

30. “This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.” - H Raven Rose

31. “Sometimes good is preventing us for being better".rbasequia..” - Regar Asequia

32. “...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.” - Jacques Lacan

33. “What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge,Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being, Whispering, feeling, reflecting, flowing between hot and cold, Mineral and plant, dark and light, love and fear, new and old.” - jay woodman

34. “Perfection is real. It occurs when you find that other part of you, that other person, that when combined you become one, perfect being.” - Shannan Jacoby