Martha Beck

"We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster."

"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."

"No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."

"Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation."

"Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be."

"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."