Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.
But a clock ticks for all of us, silently, somewhere.
Animals not only make music, they hear it in unique fashion.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.
All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
The running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
People in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.
But her absence was like a character in 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.
You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
You are not your past.
Without love, we are birds with broken wings.
Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
What's time between a mother and her daughter?Never too much, never enough.
What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.
We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.
This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.
The wrongs we do open doors to do right.
The lust for power is combustible thing