Thoughts to Savor From Ecumen and Beyond

Let 's celebrate age power as much as youth power. We need both!
Yoko Ono, artist

Aging is a wonderful thing, it is an extension of life.
Elmer L. Andersen, former Minnesota Governor

The time has come for our wondrous longevity to emerge from the long shadow cast by the vigor and virtues of youth. Aging is a vital, necessary part of the human life cycle.
William Thomas, M.D. and author

Knowing change means knowing that you're alive.
Eddie Johnson, 86-year-old U.S. Masters swimmer and Ecumen resident

I have found that beautiful things often happen, when you open yourself up to new experiences and look at things in new ways.
Marguerite Hogan, 90-year-old artist and Ecumen resident

Aging is not lost youth, but a new state of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan, author

Growing older is something you get to do if you're lucky.
Groucho Marx, actor

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ,U.S. Supreme Court Justice

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Carl Jung, Psychoanalyst

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning, Poet