Beloved

RIC_0250, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver,
Late Fragment

Never too late

Angel 14, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

What you say

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What you say is what you are.

Childhood saying

What lies within us

RC1_0691, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

What lies behind us and what lies

before us are small matters when

compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world

RIC_9436-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable. 

 Martin Büber

Love

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Art of Aging

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Eubie Blake, a songwriter who lived to 96.