Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. He squeezed my hand gently. I squeezed back harder. And like that carnival contest where you...
Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?’ He turned his head to his shoulder as if the bird were there now.
It is 1979, a basketball game in the Brandeis gym. The team is doing well, and the student section begins a chant, We’re number one! We’re number one! Morrie is sitting nearby. He is puzzled by the ch...
It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.
It is not just humans who are musical. Animals, too. This should be obvious in the thousands of birdsongs I have spawned, or the clicking of dolphins, or the moaning of humpback whales.
It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrat...
It was the first time I had seen him unshaven, the small white whiskers looking so out of place, as if someone had shaken salt neatly across his cheeks and chin. How could there be new life in his bea...
It’s a quiet theft, how time lures people away.
Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
On the other hand, Napoleon once dismissed religion as what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Meaning, without the fear of God—or literally the hell we might have to pay—the rest of us would jus...
Scenery without solace is meaningless.
The story of my recent life. I like that phrase.It makes more sense than the story of my life, because we get so many lives between birth and death.A life to be a child. A life to come of age.A life t...
There are no random acts.
There is life after this life.
There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
There's no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.
They just looked at his past. And when we’re still looking at ourselves through our past, we’re not seeing what God has done. What He can do! We’re not seeing the little things that happen in our live...
This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time.
Time,' the Captain said, 'is not what you think.' He sat down next to Eddie. 'Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning... I figure it's like in...
Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
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