All he heard was his own labored breathing, followed by an echo of that breathing. He inhaled and heard a louder inhale. He exhaled, and it exhaled too. Eddie squeezed his eyes shut. Silence is worse...
Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life be...
ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.
When you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
Don’t mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don’t go around naked, for example. I don’t run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things—how we think, what we val...
You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another per...
You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must...
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
When a colleague at Brandeis died suddenly of a heart attack, Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed.What a waste, he said. All those people saying those wonderful things, and Irv never go...
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...
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In busines...
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...
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.Eddie shook his head. We were throwing a ball...
Sometimes during the night, your father awakened. He rose from his bed, staggered across the room, and found the strength to raise the window sash. He called your mother's name with what little voice...
Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm goin...
Mitch, if you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you....
He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had a plan, and if I stuck to the planOf cour...
Ethan had told the world, the world sympathized, and Sarah Lemon was now and forever (because wasn't cyberspace instantly forever?) someone you had to be 'nice' to, a pathetic girl who just didn't get...
Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.