Staircase

As my muscles weakened,
my writing became stronger.
As I slowly lost my speech,
I gained my voice.
As I diminished, I grew.
As I lost so much,
I finally started to find myself.

Neil Selinger

Becoming Young

It takes a long time
to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Man's Search for Meaning

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing: your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived - not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

Viktor Frankl

The Third Act

When you're inside oldness, as opposed to
looking at it from the outside, fear subsides.

Jane Fonda

Without Love I Am Nothing

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

As a Loose Garment

Wear the world as a loose garment,
which touches us in a few places
and there lightly.

St. Francis of Assisi

All is Vanity

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher;
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

Ecclesiastes 1:2