Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, Do you think those pills work?Not like tha...
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.
No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.
Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life...
She put one hand on mine. When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
I shot you, all right, he said, and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too.What?I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.
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...
You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?
He ran down the heart of the old midway, where the weight guessers, fortune-tellers, and dancing gypsies had once worked. He lowered his chin and held his arms out like a glider, and every few steps h...
He stayed that way for a while, fallen man, porcelain angel, as if the two of them waited for a bus.
Morrie believed in the inherent good of people. But he also saw what they could become. People are only mean when they’re threatened, he said later that day, and that’s what our culture does. That’s w...
When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.
How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble if it were yanked away? As Sully sat in his old room, holding the letter, he felt himself l...
Time is not something you give back
Sacrifice, the Captain said. You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supp...
The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-...
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