National Senior Citizens Day is marked annually on Aug. 21 to recognize the accomplishments of our elders and show how much we care about them. This is not an official holiday.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan first announced the day to raise awareness about issues that affect senior citizens.

So, celebrate this day by spending time with the seniors in your lives and by doing something special for them.

Here are some inspirational and funny quotes, courtesy Amsterdam Printing, to share on this day:

1. "The spirit never ages. It stays forever young." – Lailah Gifty Akita

2 "To keep the heart unwrinkled — to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent — that is to triumph over old age." – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

3. "Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25 — unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107." – Martha Beck

4. "Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been." – David Bowie

5. " … (He) who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden." – Cephalus

6. "Old age … is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator." – Confucius

7. "You don't have a future when you refuse to accept the former generation. Simple." – Petra Hermans

8. "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

9. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

10. "It's not the specter of aging that haunts me. Rather, it's the far greater fear of having aged and having nothing to show for the aging." – Craig D. Lounsbrough

11. "The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you." – Mike Love

12. "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." – Theodore Roosevelt

13. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." – Mark Twain

14. "Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." – Samuel Ullman

15. "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Maria Garcia, 83, dances in her wheelchair at a Senior Citizens Prom sponsored by the MetroPlus, a prepaid health services plan, on June 23, 2017, in New York City. Spencer Platt/GETTY
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