The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. I've heard that when elephants are attacked they often run, not away, but toward each other. Perhaps it is because they are a matriarchal society.

It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

...in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in finds such a welcome that she stays.