"The fishermen know that the sea is
dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers
sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
V. Van Gogh

"If life's meaning is to be discovered,
it is intrinsic in each stage as we
assume the challenge of actualization
every moment of everyday as we
live it."
L. Buscaglia

"Do not go gentle into that goodnight.
Old age should burn and rage against the close of day."
D. Thomas

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."
O. Wilde

"The challenge is to be true to each stage of life."
L. Buscaglia

"...death is simply a running out of borrowed time."
L. Buscaglia

"But time is meaningless when it contains
the past and future in the present.
The task of old persons is to
continue to live in the now."
L. Buscaglia

"Fully functioning old persons
do not have to sit back and wait for death.

"They must build confidence and
give their limited time on Earth purpose;
They must make peace with the knowledge that
some day they will be outgrown or even forgotten,
but that the experience of life will have been enough.

"Their most precious treasures are still the
continual surprises which daily living can bring.
They can choose life."
L. Buscaglia

"The afternoon of life must
have a significance of it's own
and cannot be merely a pitiful
appendage to life's morning."
C. Jung

"Mature man finds himself and his roots in
creative relatedness to the world and
the feeling of oneness with all men and nature."
E. Fromm

"Dare to know:
That is the motto of enlightenment."
A. C. Grayling

"In other words,
discipline itself must be disciplined."
M. S. Peck

"To be fee people must assume total responsibility for ourselves,
but in doing so must posses the capacity to
reject responsibility that is not truly ours."
M. S. Peck

"By their openess,
people dedicated to the truth live in the open,
and through the exercise of their courage to
live in the open, they become free of fear."
M. S. Peck

"True intimacy is a positive force
only if it is a combining of strength and
energies with other mature persons
for the continued growth of each."
L. Buscaglia

"...agree to engage in a commitment to self."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...have a flexible but non-conformist sense of identity."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...maturity lies in creative
and responsible choices."
L. Buscaglia

"...continually grow..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Maturity is not a goal,
but rather a process."
L. Buscaglia

"...recognize the
continual wonder
of life and living."
L. Buscaglia

"...recognise that conflict can
be a positive force
for growth and change."
L. Buscaglia

"[Carl Rogers] sees maturity not as an actualization
or a state of fulfillment, but rather a process
which is forever changing and developing."
L. Buscaglia

"We coose ourselves in the present."
L. Buscaglia

"We recognize its dynamic nature,
its debt to the past,
but accept the fact that its
future realzation is independant from that past,
that our life is not merely an epologue
to what has already happened.

It is, therefore, a concept
of being and becoming."
L. Buscaglia

"Begin to emerge as an individual.
Embrace your unique self.
Come into your own."
M. Alibrando

"...find the space to explore, to experience."
L. Buscaglia

"The foolish man seeks happiness at a distance.
The wise man seeks happiness at his feet."
Chinese proverb

"...The main problem in [life] is one of being
misconceived, misinterprited and misjudged..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...We are not They, but We, Ourselves and I."
L. Buscaglia

"...We had to extend ourselves further
into our new and frightening world."
L. Buscaglia

"Most people do not understand how important thoughts are
and leave the development of thought paterns to chance."
D. Amen

Finally, brethren,
whatever is true,
whatever is honorable,
whatever is right,
whatever is pure,
whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence
and if anything worthy of praise,
dwell on these things.
Philippians 4:8 -
New American Standard Bible

"Life is overflowing with possibilities."
M. Alibrando