Cool things someone said

It takes a mighty good husband to be better than none. - Amish saying

It's not how old you are, but how you are old. - Anon.

How do we consume in a way that does justice to the lives we take? - Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary

As one grows older it is more and more necessary to reach out your hand for the sturdy old vines you knew when you were young and let them lead you back to the roots of things that matter. - Lillian Hellman in The Autumn Garden

Are we being good ancestors? - Jennifer Peedom and Robert Macfarlane in the documentary film River

They tried to bury me.  They didn't know that I was a seed. - Sinead O'Connor

The day I stop collecting recipes is the day I'll know that I have finally accepted that I'm not going to live forever. - Granny Owl

Sometimes in life you get eaten by the boa constrictor – in a dark place being squeezed on all sides.  Remember: 1)  It’s not your fault.  2)  All you have to do is hang on, because the snake will eventually shit you out into the light.  - Cynthia Whitcomb

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others. - Joseph Campbell

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. -   E.M. Forster in Howard's End

Awareness itself is the primary currency of the human condition, and as such it deserves to be spent carefully. - Andrew Olendzki in Busy Signal

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and close from fear of further pain. - Oriah Mountain Dreamer in The Invitation