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 he went blundering back to God,His songs half written, his work half done,Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod,What hills of peace or pain he won?I hope God smiled and took his hand,And sai...
To my Charley on his wedding day –…Here is what you are going to find out about marriage: you have to work at it together. And you have to love three things. You have to love:Each other.Your children...
To my Charley on his wedding day –I know you think these notes are silly. I have watched you scrunch your face over the years when I give them to you. But understand that sometimes I want to tell you...
Things grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.
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 subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.The teaching goes on.
The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.
The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.
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. Morrie,
The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting...
The Captain grinned. The way I see it, that's what we're getting here, soldier. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.
The Blue Man held out his hand. Fairness, he said, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
That’s the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn’t it? We always have so many questions.
Sully did this now, finished unfinished sentence, believing that the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.