It's such a big world, She'd say wistfully. Something is always happening somewhere.
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. He
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But...
If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business....
If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.
I was so lonely. And Father Time said, You were never alone.
I see your face in every flower, your eyes in stars above, it’s just the thought of you, the very thought of you, my love…
I never said good-bye.''Such a needless word, she said, 'when you love somebody.
I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morri...
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved
His plans never worked out. In time,he found himself graying and wearing looser pants and in a state of weary acceptance, that this was who he was and who he would always be, a man with sand in his sh...
Her divorced friends had made a pact not to leave each other alone on nights when loneliness had extra strength.
He tells my parents how I took every class he taught. He tells them, You have a special boy here. Embarrassed, I look at my feet. Before we leave, I hand my professor a present, a tan briefcase with h...
He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple...
He draped himself in her sad memory, because it was the closest thing to having her around.
He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now.
Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? Cleo asked. People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame.She l...
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. This