Life does not come with instructions on how to live.  Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.  As we get older, three things happen.  The first is where our memory goes, and we can't remember the other two.  The brain is like The Bermuda Triangle...  Information goes in, and then it's’never found again.  Age is a high price to pay for maturity.  We forget what we want to remember, and we remember what we want to forget.  If you have dreams to achieve, you are still young.

Aging is not a loss of youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.  My face carries all my memories.  They say that with age comes wisdom.  Therefore, I don't have wrinkles.  I have wisdom cracks.  Some days I amaze myself.  I do not have Alzheimer.  I have "SOME TIMERS."  Sometimes I remember, and sometimes I don't.  Sometimes I try to get out of the car with my seat belt on.  I look for my phone while I’m talking on it, standing in the middle of the room, wondering what I came in here for ?  I put something in a safe place so I don't lose it, then freakin' forget where that safe place is ?  I got it all together.  But I forgot where I put it.  When I find it, I don't need it.  When I need it, I can't find it.

The youth may move and walk faster, but it's the elders who know the road.  Life is a journey that has a lot of different paths, but any path we choose use it as our destiny.  We experience the world around us, understand its complexities, learn from our mistakes, improve beyond recognition, grow in real terms, help others to have better lives, value lives around us, and have great respect for moral worthiness.  Live as if we were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if we were to live forever.

Getting old is like a classic car or a fine wine.   Life is like ice cream.  Enjoy it before it melts.  Dance before the music is over; live before your life is over.  The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.  At the end of the day, whether or not you are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter.  What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.  The silence of a loved one can be more painful than their absence.  Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.  There are more sincere kisses at the airport than wedding halls, and the walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of a church.  It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value.

Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.  Don't take life for granted.  In the blink of an eye, everything can change.  So forgive often and love with all your heart.  You may never know when you may not have that chance again.  Be grateful for life.  Not everyone made it this far.  If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summers day.  Be grateful for every second of every day that you get to spend with the people you love.  Loneliness doesn't come from being alone.  It comes from feeling that nobody cares.  Never give up on the people you love.  You may be their only hope.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.  The years teach much, which the days never knew.  Aging is inevitable, but that does not mean that you are “over the hill.”  Age is just a number but staying youthful is a choice.  It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.  Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.  Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.  You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away.  At the end of life, age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.  What really matters is not what we bought but what we built; not what we got but what we shared; not our competence but our character; and not our success but our significance.  Live a life that matters.  Life gives meaning to death; but it could also be said that death gives meaning to life, just as the silences in music give meaning to the line of sound.  We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.  We only live once, but if we do it right, once is enough.  Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.  Don't worry about getting old; worry about thinking old.  Nothing feels better than the privilege of being alive.  What a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.  You never know how much time you have left.  Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.  Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

We enter the world with nothing, and we leave the world with nothing.  Our bodies are lent to us by the Creator, including our hair, teeth, memory, vision, and hearing.  We didn't bring anything when we were born, and we had to return it to the Creator when we left.  Embrace the impermanence of life and make the most of the time you have.  Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.  Love is the only memory one never loses.  Respect the old when you are young.  Help the weak when you are strong.  Confess your faults when you are wrong.  Because one day you will be old, weak, and wrong.  Love what you have now, before life teaches you to love what you lost.  One day, you are going to hug your last hug, kiss your last kiss and hear someone's voice for the last time, but you never know when the last time will be, so live every day as if it were the last time you will be with the person you love.  You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.  An old man took his phone to the repair shop.  Technician:  "Nothing is wrong with this phone."  An old man with tears in his eyes said, "Then why don't my children call me ?"  Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.  Never pass up the chance to say "I love you", because tomorrow is never promised.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here.  And when it does come, we no longer exist.  Appreciate every moment of your life because one day you'll wish you had more time.  Tears are the silent language of grief.  The two hardest things to say in life are hello for the first time and goodbye for the last.  Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, and love leaves a memory no one can steal.