With each new carving, he spoke out loud. He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.
When you are born, you cried while the world rejoiced.Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.
When my mother entered, wearing her nurse’s outfit, her arms full of magazines, we must have said, Hi Mom too quickly, because she immediately became suspicious. You can see that in your mother’s face...
When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.
What will you do with the time you have left?
What in life can love not penetrate?
What if I lose you?You can't lose your mother, Charley.
What happened next depends on how much you believe.
We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.
We are involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying , Is this all? Is this all i want? Is something miss...
Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied -- before working some more.
To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wa...
This is what it said: In heaven, we can see you. . . . We can feel you. . . . We know your pain, your tears, but we feel no pain or tears ourselves. . . . There are no bodies here . . . there is no ag...
There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need, Morrie said. You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest s...
There was, in the construction of the universe, us down here, God up there, and you in between. When God seemed too intimidating to face, we could first come to you. It was like befriending the secret...
There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It’s why the act of burying things seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
Then Adam boldly said, ‘Lord, what if I am willing to bestow on that soul some of the years of my life?’ And God answered Adam, saying, ‘If that is your wish, that I will grant.’ Adam, we are told, di...
The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.