Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad...
For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take
Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith. The
Fairness, he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
Every muscle he has was as tight as a piano wire.
Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
Dying, Morrie suddenly said, is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy. Why?Well, for one thing, the culture w...
Don't get too attached to anything.
Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
Does this prove what we believe?If you believe it, you don't need proof.
Do you believe in reincarnation? I ask.Perhaps.What would you come back as?If I had my chance, a gazelle.A gazelle?Yes, so graceful. So fast.A gazelle?Morrie smiled at me. You think that's strange?I s...
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head t...
Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed w...
Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..
Common sense would have told Sarah to steer clear of Ethan's waters. But common sense has no place in first love and never has.
But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.
But what if someone from another faith won’t recognize yours? Or wants you dead for it?That is not faith. That is hate. He sighed. And if you ask me, God sits up there and cries when that happens.
But there still seemed to be no clear answers. Do you take care of others or take care of your inner child? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity...