Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it...
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.
When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire
We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not tru...
We do not realize the sound the world makes-unless of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.Breaking waves. Whipping wind. Falling rain. Squawking birds. All th...
We could look out our windows and still see your face, still hear your voice on the wind. But where do we look for you now?
War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too.
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...
To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your lifewhile you're living.
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...
This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.
They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama
They don’t know what they want in a partner. They don’t know who they are themselves—so how can they know who they’re marrying?
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.