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Actress “Betty White” recently passed away on December 31, 2021 at the age of 99. She was one of my favorite people to watch no matter what show she was doing. I loved listening to her talk especially when asked about her long life. She had such a positive out look on living a long time I thought I would share some of her words of wisdom. I hope they may inspire you going forward no matter how old or young you are.

“My mother had the most wonderful outlook on death,” she told Katie Couric on “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2011. “She would always say, ‘Nobody knows. People think they do – you can believe whatever you want to believe what happens at that last moment – but nobody ever knows until it happens.’ Growing up, whenever we’d lose somebody, she’d always say, ‘Now they know the secret.'”

“list of fears keeps growing until I begin to wonder if I have always been chicken.”

“Fear of death is not one of my problems . . . only of the dying. The how, not the when of it,” she wrote. “Getting there is not half the fun, and the fear of doing it badly could be of concern if I wanted to waste time thinking about it. I don’t.”

“I figure I will improvise when the time comes . . . some things are better without rehearsal.”

“Tell them that at 90 there’s no need to get impatient,” she told the outlet. “I’m hurrying as best as I can.”

“I’m happy as a lark to stay around as long as I can,”

“They spoil me rotten,” she told Couric. “Really, it’s terrible and I enjoy every minute of it and make the most of it.”

“so lucky to be in such good health and feel so good at this age.”

she “enjoyed exploring a path I rarely travel, and have no idea where it leads.”

“I’ll be dying to find out,” she wrote.