In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs us all that we are
and will ever be
Yet is is only love
which sets us free
Maya Angelou

There are two kinds of daily life — the life in time and the life in values: something which is not measured by minutes or hours, but by intensity, so that when we look at our past, it does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few notable pinnacles, and when we look at the future, it seems sometimes a wall, sometimes a cloud and sometimes a sun, but never a chronological chart. E.M. Forster

I would not give you back a year of life lived. Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life — it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life. Anne Lamott

The hardest word I know is only.
Only this and never that.
Judy Sorum Brown

“What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space.” Judy Sorum Brown