We’ve got a form of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that’s what we do in this country. Owning thing...
The way you get meaning into life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. (43)
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.
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - uncon...
The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
The telephone voice is but a seduction, a bread crumb to an appetite.
The story is about a little wave, bobbing along in the ocean, having a grand old time. He’s enjoying the wind and the fresh air—until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the s...
Monsieur Django, I presume? Duke Ellington said, offering his hand. Monsieur
The pain you go through in life doesn’t really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.Love is the only rational act.
What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet h...
The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Taking just makes me feel like I'm dying. Giving makes me feel like I'm living.
Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now—not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry—there is nothing innately embarras...
Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?He made a fist.Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants t...
Please love one another, talk to one another, don’t let trivialities dissolve friendships…
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more.
Proving heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.
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