you get old because you stop running

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Christopher McDougall

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011. 

keeps men and women young and handsome

Brother Thomas considers himself very aged and infirm, and you can see that he is, brethren and sisters! What is the cause of it? He left the gospel of salvation. What do you think is the difference between his age and mine? One year and seven months to a day; and he is one year , seven months, and fourteen days older than Brother Heber C. Kimball. ‘Mormonism’ keeps men and women young and handsome; and where they are full of the Spirit of God, there are none of them but will have a glow upon their countenances; and that is what makes you and me young; for the Spirit of God is with us, and within us.


Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, Vol. V., p. 210 as quoted in Doctrine and Covenants Commentary by Hyrum M. Smith and Janne M. Sjodahl. Deseret Book. 1965. p.168

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.


Robert Browning. Rabbi Ben Ezra in The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning. 1895. P.383

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.


Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 1899. P.400