228. While Ānanda was massaging the Lord’s limbs he said to him: “The Lord’s complexion is no longer pure and bright, his limbs are flabby and wrinkled, his body stooped, and his sense faculties have deteriorated.”
S.V,216 (SN 48.41)
[2019 edition] Just as the River Ganges flows towards, inclines towards, tends towards the east, so too, one who cultivates and develops the Noble Eightfold Path flows towards, inclines towards and tends towards Nirvana.
S.V,38 (SN 45.91)