We grow old because we stop playing

"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with

regrets."--Speech by "ROSE", age 87

The Great Sensory Hilariousness of our Young Lives


this is one of my favorite pictures of Mira....taken at my friend Arlene's place...she lives right on Lake Erie

"As we grow up, we put away our laughter and our silliness and our
childish
noises, the great sensory hilariousness of our young lives. We pick up a
few
notions about proper behavior, like what books to read and how to go
about
getting married and buying a home and being polite and having cocktail
parties...and the next thing you know, the little child--who was also an
enormously alive sensory apparatus--is just another boring adult going to
work
in a seersucker suit with a briefcase."

--John Rosenthal