The document discusses the concept of creative aging, emphasizing the importance of continually unwrapping and sharing one's unique gifts throughout life. It contrasts conventional views of aging with perspectives that focus on possibilities and personal contributions. Various quotes reinforce the notion that perseverance, creativity, and self-discovery are vital in navigating the aging process.

29. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
Conventional wisdom views age
and aging in terms of the number
years a person has lived on earth:
Calendar Aging

30. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
This conversation considers aging
primarily in terms of new
possibilities a person’s life has
brought to his or her world:
Creative Aging

38. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“Great things are done when men
and mountains meet.
These are not done by jostling
in the street.”
-William Blake

39. CREATIVITY: Revealing the Truth
about Human Nature
Brings you in touch with your innermost nature
CREATIVE
AGING
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“Today’s children are too
often raised in a passive way
with little or no opportunity to
find their identity and
recognize their talents before
they are thrust out into a
society that is increasingly
more specialized and
technical.”
-James Redfield and Carol Adrienne
CREATIVE
AGING
“The great have
a way of
conquering
fate.”
-Sarah K. Bolton
Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts

41. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
Genius, that power which dazzles mortal
eyes,
Is oft but perseverance in disguise.”
-C. C. Cameron

52. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“Great minds have purposes,
others have wishes. Little minds
are tamed and subdued by
misfortune; but great minds rise
above it.”
-Washington Irving

56. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“A man’s ability to stick beyond
the endurance point brings him
in touch with the mystic genius
which bridges the chasm from
failure to success.”
-Dorothea Kopplin

57. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“Whenever you feel that you as an
individual can do little, remember:
The course of history shows that
many a time a strong, earnest soul
has swayed the destiny of nations.”
-Dorothea Kopplin

58. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“Few ever fail by trying,
Few ever win who wait.
All of your sitting, sighing
Never will conquer fate.
Whatever path you are hewing,
One thing is certain, son;
Either be up and doing
Or soon you’ll be down and done.”
-Douglas Malloch

63. CREATIVE AGING
Making Your Life Count – Continuously Unwrapping and Sharing Your Unique Gifts
“We know what our part is by what feels
not just familiar, but deeply true and right
when we do it. We know it by what we love
and what makes us feel fulfilled. We know
it by what we cling to when everything
around us and sometimes in us is falling
apart.”
-Carol S. Pearson