How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
How can you ever be prepared to die?Do what the Buddhists do. 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...
Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.
His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless
Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.
He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.' The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. That, he said, softly, is a terrible self-indictment.
He thought about his son’s stone flying across the yard, the youthful idea that you could toss away the future ifyou didn’t like it—and he realized, suddenly, what he needed to do.
He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. I do not want to die, she whispered.You will not die...
He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.
He did not know that the child whohad asked for yesterday was nowseeking to own tomorrow.Victor never prayed
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general...
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.
Everyone is in such a hurry to find the meaning in their lives. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
Every society has its own problems, Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture...
Dor shook his head. The phrase. What does it mean?Sarah wondered if he was kidding. Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbyeand it’s like no time passed at...
Dor came from a time before the written word, a timewhen if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools ofthis era—phones, computers—enabled people to...
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..