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You're not simply getting old, you're getting decrepit.... You
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Try your hardest to combat atrophy and routine. To question The Obvious and the given is an essential element of the maxim 'de omnius dubitandum' [All is to be doubted].
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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
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Long life wore away everything that was not essential.
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Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.
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When your legs get weaker time starts running faster.
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Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
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With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Exercise will be the death of me.
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Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.
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sleep-stiffened bones
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Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.
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Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
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Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
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The signs of psychic draining - we call aging.
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Aging is mostly the failure to repair.
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At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
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The accumulation of toxins in the body/mind system accelerates aging.
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Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
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That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
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Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
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Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
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Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.
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It's shrinkage! Hasn't she heard of shrinkage? -George Costanza, Seinfeld
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Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
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The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
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Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
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Aging and death is what happens to everybody.
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In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state ... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease ... Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.
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A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind.
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This body is breaking down, but I am not.
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Couldn't decades of eating the best foods, taking the best vacations, and sleeping in the finest beds prevent the slumping of the frame and the spackling of the skin?
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I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.
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Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite.
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Let exercise alternate with rest.
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Heart failure, it explains nothing! I have yet to meet a corpse whose heart it still beats.
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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
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Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
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The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game is finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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the author of Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Through Life.
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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lethargic meliorist;
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If you rest, you rust.
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Without a daily supply of proteins, vitamins, and minerals, no matter how much energy we get in the form of calories, our bodies and minds deteriorate because we are not able to fully replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs.
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Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it.
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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
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Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty ... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.
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Depression, in its insidious way, acts as a degenerative disease, harming nerve cells. Like
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She'll find rapid deterioration, which is particularly noticeable in the skin.This is the sign that the subtle physcial is aging.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it
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The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live
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The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.
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When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.
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Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance ... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
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[On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT ...
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Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.
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When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
[Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]
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Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
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Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise.
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What is without periods of rest will not endure.
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One consequence of biological aging is that one's lifetime eventually runs out.
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Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.
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Motion is the sign of life. Stagnation is the prerequisite of death.
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Periodic Paralysis is not our friend
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five.
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Malady of mortality
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Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
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Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
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Only weariness remained. It was a special kind of weariness that descended rarely, according to internal chemical regimens he did not understand. It made striving difficult, but also falsehood.
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Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
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The biggest issue by far is that carbohydrates are absolutely at the cornerstone of all of our major degenerative conditions.
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Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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Stasis, Iseult det Midenzi told herself for the thousandth time since dawn. Stasis in your fingers and in your toes.
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
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The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.
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Idleness is paralysis.
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In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.
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Your body's dying...pay no attention
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The human body is like a piece of fabric. No matter how well one cares for it, it frays as it ages.
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Seeped into his bones from decades of sitting outdoors in
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There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
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Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.