His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try. He watched his son with heavy-lidded eyes. Eddie, after struggling to find even one sentence to say, did t...
His body had been weakened, the ocen had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took ahold of him, and in time, he died.'Because of Mickey?' Eddie said.Because of loyalty,' she said.People don't die because o...
Heaven...is the same feeling...No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved...that's the light.
He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, Body and Soul.
He told me a story. A man buried his wife. At the gravesite he stood by the Reb, tears falling down his face. I loved her, he whispered. The Reb nodded. I mean…I really loved her. The man broke down....
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, bu...
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.
Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites?Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something...
Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites? Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something...
Guardar a raiva é envenenar-se. Ela nos consome por dentro. A gente costuma pensar que o ódio é uma arma contra a pessoa que nos fez mal. Mas a lâmina do ódio é curva. E o mal que fazemos com ele, nós...
Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment—to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began—Morrie stopped...
Eddie looked again at the graveside gathering. He wondered if he'd had a funeral. He wondered if anyone came. He saw the priest reading from the bible and the mourners lowering their heads. This was t...
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should? It is because the human spirit know, deep down, that all lives intersect.
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
Before you measure the years, you measure the days. And before the days, you measure the moon.
Before I came to you, he said, you came to me. Sarah studied his face. You don’t really fix clocks, do you? I prefer them broken. Why is that? Victor said. Dor looked at the grain of sand in his finge...
And then he understands. 'He sleeps in a storm.'My friends, 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 no...
And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God’s happy.