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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Gratitude

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    “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.”

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

    “We labor into life and we labor out of life. All of us are born with life and death walking next to us.”

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    — Shelby Kirillin, An end-of-life doula based in Richmond, Virginia

    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

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    — Mark Twain, acclaimed American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist

    “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

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    — Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher and scholar whose writings on morality, truth, culture, and the meaning of existence have been enormously influential on Western philosophy

    “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, in spite of ourselves.”

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    — Victor Hugo, a 19th-century French poet who also wrote several iconic novels, including Les Misérables

    “I used to be young but I got over it.”

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    — Patricia Prijatel, the E.T. Meredith Distinguished Professor Emerita at Drake University, author and a health writer for numerous national print and online publications. This quote was from her recent post in Psychology Today.