Anti-aging products that fill pharmacy shelves and magazine advertising space push the message that it is better to look, feel and be younger. While of course aging is often accompanied by negative health side effects, these anti-aging messages do not tell the whole story of what it is like to grow “old.” Aging is by accompanied maturity, wisdom, new opportunities -- beautiful things that are certainly not “anti" anything.


To help you feel great about getting older, we’ve assembled nine of our favorite quotes about aging. Do you have a favorite quote about aging? If so, please share your aging quotes in the comments section.




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Earlier on Huff/Post50:






  • 1. Every second, two people around the world celebrate their sixtieth birthday.




  • 2. In 1910, life expectancy for a Chilean female was 33 years. Today it is 82 years.




  • 3. On 16 October 2011, British national Fauja Singh became the first 100 year-old to complete a marathon by running the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in Canada.




  • 4. In the United Kingdom, one third of the babies born in 2012 can expect to celebrate their 100th birthday.




  • 5. 65% of people over 60 live in less developed countries. Despite their growing share of the population in the developing world however, less than one percent of humanitarian aid was targeted at older people in 2010-11.




  • 6. Born in Tennessee in 1896, Besse Cooper is the world’s oldest living person. On her 116th birthday this year she said: “I mind my own business. And I don’t eat junk food.”




  • 7. Japan is the world’s “oldest” country, with the highest concentration of people aged 60 and over.




  • 8. Forty-seven percent of males over 60 years old and 24 percent of females over 60 years old still participate in the labour force; in some developing countries, over 90 percent of [people] over 60 work.




  • 9. Harlan David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken at the age of 65.




  • 10. Fewer than one in five older people globally have access to a pension.