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    The Last Word

    Words of Wisdom About Aging

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    “It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

    — George Sand, the pen name for a 19th century female French novelist, memoirist, and journalist

    “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

    — Dale Carnegie, American author and public speaker best known for his promotion of the psychology of a successful personality.

    “In my experience, most of us age away from brain and ambition toward heart and soul, and we bathe in relief that things are not worse.”

    — Anne Lamott, American novelist, non-fiction writer, and progressive political activist whose quote is from her recent Washington Post Op-Ed, It’s good to remember: We are all on borrowed time

    “Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstances, you have to remake your life.”

    — Katharine Graham, Pulitzer Prize winner and publisher of the Washington Post from 1963 to 1991

    “Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”

    — Harold Kushner, American rabbi and best-selling author, best known for his monumental book, When Bad Things Happen To Good People.

    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

    — C.S Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian whose work includes the Chronicles of Narnia