We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to be used up, so that the older we get, the less life we have left. Life is the accumulation of wisdom, love and experience of people encountered and obstacles overcome. The longer we live, the more life we possess.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.