“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

“I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.”

“ The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

“Years dwindle, a countdown in reverse — many scratch Bucket Lists of all not done to be done. Not I — No lists of incomplete dreams, not because I have none but because they no longer matter — I have what I need, the rest is waste —a lesson of age…

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

“We seem to think, when a big birthday looms, that when we cross that dreaded threshold it will bring with it a Cat. 5 typhoon somewhere in our body. But remember, we age one day at a time…And when you get there, it won’t be with the shock of having…