Gabriela

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

“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
― Alan Watts

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked with things beyond marking. I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory. I would look for that moment when I would begin to pour alone and in wonder. I would always try to seize that moment and to accept its challenge. I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing faith and a belief in astonishment. And if by accident, I could make a volcano in a single test tube, then what could I do with all the strange magnificent elements of the world with its infinity of unknowns, with the swarm of man, with civilization, with language?”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline