Any Shiny Thing - Life after 50

To be defiant about age may be better than despair - it's energizing - but it is not progress. Actually, after fifty, aging can become an exciting new period; it is another country.                                              - Gloria Steinem

Decide how to live your life, or someone else will decide for you.            Frieda Richter

There is a fountain of youth; it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.                          - Sophia Loren

We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.                                - Anais Nin

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years old.                                      - Nora Ephron

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.  - Harper Lee