Shelly

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu