I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.