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- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
- Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
- Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
- Miriam Makeba, O Magazine, October 2003
- The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
- Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
- Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
- To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
- With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
- Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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