Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi

Disintegration

Edith Wharton~

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way.

Off the Beaten Path

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~Albert Einstein

Hand-Me Downs

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape.  Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes.  A featherweight portable museum.  ~Susan Sontag

Obstacles

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

— B.C. Forbes

Age

Abandoned BF Goodrich Factory in Akron OH 

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  ~Douglas MacArthur

If Walls Could Speak

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." 
Mother Teresa