We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.