“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

– Betty Friedan

“I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”

-Walt Whitman

“Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” –Saint Augustine

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” –William Shakespeare

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

“Live as beautifully, bravely, and kindly as you can…” (unknown)

“There’s no life

that couldn’t be immortal

if only for a moment.”

- Wisława Szymborska

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

― Shannon Alder”

When life has lost its promise, when it is hard to trust again or feel alive or curious again, love beckons us over and asks, “Got a minute?”

—Anne Lamott

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

- Mother Teresa

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Ursula K. Le Guin

“Nature leaves its treasures scattered in plain view. It takes a careful observer to see what is everywhere”

-Kat Lehmann Small Stones from the River

"The earth is what we all have in common." - Wendell Berry

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." –Leonard Cohen

“Sweet April showers, do spring May flowers.”

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Move the way love makes you move.”

–Rumi

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

“I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake..."

-Mrs. March, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn’t let someone else be the person to find it for you.” –Justine Skye

“I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.” –Joyce Kilmer