Ethel Percy Andrus Quotes

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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something outside ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.

Ethel Percy Andrus

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart — preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Ethel Percy Andrus

Ethel Percy Andrus

Born: September 21, 1884

Died: July 13, 1967 (aged 82)

Bio: Ethel Percy Andrus was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California. She was also an elder rights activist and the founder of AARP in 1958.

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