it’s not the years in your life that count…

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

— African saying

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions that seem irremediable become relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

— Carl Rogers