“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;
we must die to one life before we can enter into another.”
Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?”
-Satchel Paige (1906-1982)
[T]his baseball legend continued his successful career well into his 60s. We are so obsessed with age, Paige implies, that we allow it to define our identities. Break out of the mental set that makes you think of your age first, and your identity second. (From Psychology Today)
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Hold on to what is good,
Even if it’s a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it’s a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it’s a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it’s easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if someday I’ll be gone away from you.
– A Pueblo Indian Prayer
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
– Cherokee
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Recycled Affirmations 