The basic Aphor list and a sublist Aphor Charles Scamahorn 

1. To be understood, you must say things that those listening are willing to hear and understand.

2. We grow more rigid with age when we cease to see the changing world around us and project onto the new world what once was there.

3. If you look and talk like you’re eighty years old, people will treat you like an eighty-year-old person.

4. Eighty-year-olds can still enjoy skiing, but they break bones easily and die, even when they take little falls.

5. When we choose to ask for help, we must accept hearing many conflicting things from which we sift out what will help our needs.

6. If you tell your personal stories as if they happened in a faraway place and an ancient time, your life becomes a fairy tale.

7. Tell your life stories as if they are in the process of happening right now.

8. Among the greatest blessing of being a mature human being is having the ability to forecast probable events and preadapt to them.

9. Adding more years to our lives sharpens those good and bad habits we have been using into our present actions.

10. Live life in the current moment with an enthusiasm that fills that moment and sets the stage for an enthusiastic next moment.

11. Living to be old requires good sense and good luck, but being old with contentment also requires good character, founded on good habits.

12. People who believe they are always right get more rigid as they age, but adaptable people grow more loving of everyone; it depends on their chosen habits.

13. Some folks grow more stoical as they age and cease worrying about things they can not  influence, and they choose to enjoy the beauty around them.

14. Growing old can be lived on a beautiful path filled with beautiful things, but it requires being on a well-chosen way.

15. Our bodies will weaken with the years, but our minds can mature into an ever healthier condition if we think and do the right things.

16. Even a child feels decrepit and old if he wallows in habits of worry and regrets.

17. Personal growth would continue after a man’s death if he invested a portion of his being into the world’s well-being and development.

18. A considerable portion of wisdom is the foresight of knowing which habits to cultivate and which to weed out and replant with healthier habits.

19. Time will age one’s body, but abuse will ruin it quicker.

20. Even when obscuring clouds and the night of infirmity prevent us from seeing, we can find truth and beauty here in our darkening world.

21. Growing old is delightful when you chose the proper habits for cultivating your personality.

22. Luck gives us our parents, place of birth and youth, but we can choose from an early age to seek beauty, healthier minds, and bodies.

23. Do everything you can with your life to help others live theirs more abundantly; it enables you to see better what they and you need.

24. It can be a pleasure entering maturity and moving away from the struggles of dependent youth and striving adulthood.

25. Fit your actions to their appropriate time and do now what needs doing and put off forever what you shouldn’t do.

26. When we see people succeed, we can observe what works and see what brings failure. “Do what works, and avoid what doesn’t work.”

27. Watch for the precursors of contentment, and search for ways to find your way and others to bliss by observing the antecedents.

28. You could have contentment in youth if those who had attained it demonstrated how to act with older contentment when young.

29. Find essential things that need doing, and promote those things with physical commitments.

30. Those who pay attention to their society and participate are on the path to social success and perpetual vigor.

31. A person with an inflexible mind and rigid attitudes isn’t thinking and is functionally a dead statue.

32. Maturity and old age are lovely if one has behaved well and continues to behave well, but it requires wisdom to know what that means.

33. How you can have tranquility within your home, and contentment with society and the world, can be learned early and enjoyed for a lifetime.

34. We are all students of life, and we are all thinking about what we should be doing as youths, adults, and mature people, some of the time.

35. We should avoid offensive behavior at every age, be kind to everyone, speak well of our friends and always behave honestly.

36. The sage of Proverbs said to a youth that he should get wisdom, and what is that but to learn to foresee coming causes and their effects?

37. Modern people find it difficult to grow old gracefully because their lives are inundated with propaganda to value things they don’t need.

38. It is impossible to slow the fleeting days, but we can influence our physical and mental health and promote our contentment.

39. We mellow with age and improve our happiness if we cultivate our wisdom, but we rot with age if we grasp at unearned pleasures.

40. Those who disparage old age are destroying decades of their potential future contentment.

41. Whoever lives for bodily pleasures will grow increasingly despondent with their advancing years’ decrepitude, but those enjoying helping others will thrive.

42. Wise people are content with what they are becoming and enjoy what they have made for themselves.

43. As we age, we become more similar to our unique inner selves.

44. To grow old well, pay attention to the good things you might seek and the bad things to avoid.

45. You can be growing experience and the potential for greater wisdom every moment of your life, which will compound exponentially.

46. Waking up to full consciousness in the morning or the middle of a conversation is always enlightening.

47. A young neurotic is often a physically healthy person who has cultivated some poor mental habits.

48. Life is proportional to how we use it, and the better use we make of our adult years, the more profound will be our later contentment.

49. Everyone has problems, and if we look carefully, we can learn from their experiences.

50. The desirable childlike qualities of old age enable older people to see the world with fresh insights and be contented with what they see there.

51. A mature person avoids risks because risks often cause problems, and usually, you can do something else that gets you what you need.

52. Being creative usually gets you to your self-chosen good end.

53. When people ask me what’s my secret for looking so good at eighty-five, I say I chose my parents carefully and kept my face out of fights.

54. When you are doing something important, you are alive and feel young, but you are instantly old and feel decrepit when you stop doing anything productive.

55. Cheerfulness is based on a life of good habits, but happiness is always in the moment, and soon that happy moment vanishes forever.

56. Fools grow more foolish with age, as their thinking based on falsehoods grows ever more confused and they practice worsening habits.

57. Maturity is a potential reward we might achieve for not getting ourselves killed in our youth doing stupid things or in middle age with alcohol.

58. Every new moment of a maturing life is getting better because it develops itself upon a more developed foundation.

59. People quickly forget that the function of their brain is to promote their health and survival of their body so they can reproduce their species.

60. We carry our good, bad, and middling habits to our last breath.

61. To the end of your life, a good habit for improving your contentment is to find ways to help others improve their lives.

62. A life well lived can be departed at any time because it has improved the world of everyone who lives after.

63. Live your life to the fullness of the moment, even when that moment is dying.