Morrie closed his eyes to absorb the notes. As my wife’s loving voice filled the room, a crescent smile appeared 0n his face. And while his body was stiff as a sandbag, you could almost see him dancin...
Something is always happening somewhere.
She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors...
That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.
Unlike any man before him, Dor was being allowed to exist without getting older, to not use a single breath of the numbered breaths of his life. But inside, Dor was broken. Not aging is not the same a...
We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
He was never haunted by Why am I here? He knew why he was here, he said: to give to others, to celebrate God, and to enjoy and honor the world he was put in. His morning prayers began with Thank you,...
Here is what I know of love. It changes the way you treat me. I feel it in your hands. Your fingers. Your compositions. The sudden rush of peppy phrases, major sevenths, melody lines that resolve neat...
Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
I used to think I knew everything. I was a smart person who got things done, and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religi...
The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.
Life goes quickly, doesn't it, Charley?Yeah, I mumbled.It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
You really loved her?''I would have given my life.''Would you have taken it?''No, child,' he said.'That is not ours to do.
It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are...
He was so accustomed to being correct in his judgments. Had he been spared the smaller mistakes in life only to make the biggest one at the end?
I wondered, now that his days were dwindling, how important ritual still was. Vital, he said. But why? Deep inside, you know your convictions. Mitch, he said, faith is about doing. You are how you act...
When you're in bed, you're dead
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
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