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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.: Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942

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