It’s not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch, he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves.Ourselves?Yes. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You ca...
It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. He finally whispered, We also need to forgive ourselves.
It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses
If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.
I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.
I prefer them broken.''Why is that?' Victor said.Dor looked at the grain of sand in his fingers.'Because I am the sinner who created them.
I love you every day,Mom
How do we say good-bye to you without saying good-bye to apiece of ourselves? Where do we look for you now?
How can I be envious of where you are when I've been there myself?
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...
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,...
He stayed that way for a while, fallen man, porcelain angel, as if the two of them waited for a bus.
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don’t wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I’m getting. Not everyone is as lucky. I
Everyone knows they’re going to die, he said again, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. So we kid ourselves about death, I said. Yes. But there’s a better approach. To k...
Everyone joins a band in this life. One way or another, the band breaks up.
Don't fall asleep in classes. It's such a lucky thing you have, to be taught and to be learning and not have to be working in a shop somewhere.
Cuando eres malo contigo mismo te vuelves malo con todos los demás, incluso con aquellos a los que amas.
Common sense has no place in first love and never has.
But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fi...