Created with sketchtool. Created with sketchtool.
Sign Up for Free Weekly Newsletter



    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

    Physical and Emotional Health and Well Being

    Back to Categories

    “As long as you can see each day as a chance for something new to happen, something you never experienced before, you will stay young.”

    Read More

    — Sarah Louise Delany, an American educator and civil rights pioneer, who lived to be 109 and gained acclaim in a book written about her and her sister Bessie, entitled Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 years

    “A good way to overcome your stress is to help others out of theirs.”

    Read More

    — Dada Vaswani, A renowned Hindu Indian spiritual leader whose efforts included the promotion of animal rights and vegetarianism.

    “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”

    Read More

    — Erik Erikson, a Danish-German-Jewish child psychoanalyst considered one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century

    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.”

    Read More

    — Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women

    “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.”

    Read More

    — Helen Hayes, a 20th-century American actress often referred to as “The First Lady of the American Theater”

    “The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball- the further I am rolled the more I gain.”

    Read More

    — Susan B. Anthony, American activist for women’s rights who played a critical role in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States