growth

Even in the autumn of your life, you cannot give up growth.
If you do, you only invite decline

All the different aspects of a person
- body, mind, and spirit -
have one curious quality:

If they cease to be exercised, they stop growing.
Once they stop growing, they begin to atrophy



That is why, no matter how much you have accomplished
and no matter how old you are,
you must keep exercising all parts of yourself

We only grow when we are challenged.
Muscles do not strengthen without resistance.
Mental faculties do not sharpen without critical thinking

The spirit does not soar without something to excite it.
It may seem like a great effort to constantly try new things,
but unless you do, you fall out of your heights very quickly



The constancy of physical exercise,
varied from time to time into new routines,
and the constancy of mental and spiritual challenges
are essential to stave off the infirmities of aging

We cannot reverse aging completely,
but we can slow it down.
As long as we are vital,
we will not suffer as much