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    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”

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    — Montesquieu, one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment who is considered the inventor of the modern concept of the separation of powers, highly influential on the framers of the US Constitution

    “If you still have passion and if you haven’t become cynical and you’ve remained open to life, then no matter how old you are chronologically, you’re still young.”

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    — Jane Fonda, Academy award-winning American actress, political activist, and environmentalist

    “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”

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    — Bonnie Prudden, American physical fitness pioneer, expert rock climber, and mountaineer

    “Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.”

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    — Anna Deavere Smith, Award-winning American actress, playwright, author, and professor

    “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.”

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    — Pam Brown, Contemporary Australian Poet

    “Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”

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    — Thich Nhat Hanh, known as “The Father of Mindfulness,” Renowned Buddhist Monk, Peace Activist, and Author who profoundly influenced the Western practice of Buddhism. He died this past week at the age of 95