“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”―  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! ~Ingrid Bergman