Embrace aging.
Dying, Morrie suddenly said, is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
But all endings are also beginnings.
All parents damage their children. IT cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagg...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams
The human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.
We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
My friedns, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled...
What happened next depends on how much you believe.
We who are born, are born to die.
We humans make so much of 'our' time on earth. We measure it, we compare it, we put it in our tombstones.
Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't k...
There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.
The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in...
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.
Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.