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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Aging and Being Bold

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    “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

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    — Maggie Kuhn, American activist who founded The Gray Panthers after being forced to retire at age 65

    “No matter how young you may look or feel, time refuses to rest. It forges on. I’m now right around the age my parents were when I first considered them old. I’m not sure when the world will consider me old — maybe it already does — but I do…

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    — Charles Blow, New York Times Opinion Columnist from his recent essay, The Beauty of Embracing Aging

    “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”

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    — Jim Rohn, American Entrepreneur, Author, and Motivational Speaker

    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”

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    — Alice Munroe, Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who passed away this week at the age of 92.

    “The greatest potential for growth and self-realization exists in the second half of life.”

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    — Carl Jung, Renowned Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology

    “We are all figuring it out as we go. Aging is grad school.”

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    — Anne Lamott, American novelist, non-fiction writer, and progressive political activist