When you are old and grey and full of sleep

And nodding by the fire, take down this book

And slowly read and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

W. B. Yeats.

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

Basketball player – Vlade Divac.

Don’t weep at my grave for I am not there,

I’ve a date with a butterfly to dance in the air.

I’ll be singing in the sunshine, wild and free

Playing tag with the wind, while waiting for thee.

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“It was involuntary. They sank my boat”.

John F. Kennedy – on being asked how he became a war hero.

I didn’t go to church today,

I trust the Lord to understand.

The surf was swirling blue and white,

The children swirling on the sand.

He knows, He knows how brief my stay,

How brief this spell of summer weather,

He knows when I am said and done

We’ll have a plenty of time together.

Ogden Nash published this verse in 1968, three years before his death, in “There’s Always Another Windmill”.

Don’t go to a school reunion.

There’ll be a lot of old people there claiming to be your classmates.

Comedian/Actor Tom Dreesen.

Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green –

the wattle’s wedding dress –

and Spring is near.

Then suddenly it seems,

one golden morning,

the Bush awakes, a living thing.

Flowers bloom, birds sing,

and all the world puts on it’s gayest dress

to greet the laughing Spring.

C. J. Dennis

I wandered lonely as a cloud

that floats on high o’er vales and hills,

when all at once I saw a crowd,

a host, of golden daffodils;

beside the lake, beneath the trees,

fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

William Wordsworth.

A sorrow shared is but half a trouble,

but a joy that’s shared is a joy made double.

That though the radiance which was once so bright

be now forever taken from my sight.

Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower.

We will grieve not,

rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth.