But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for gr...
It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the ne...
We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And Just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we se...
Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it
He found himself thinking about his childhood.Why do you drink so much, Maestro?This is not a music question.Are you sad, Maestro?Again, not a music question.I am sad sometimes, Maestro.Practice more....
When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.
Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I wo...
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.
Do not cry over losing blood. Not for something you love.
I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments o...
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one .
Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.He let it pass.
But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.
But I had never seen her that way. I had never known her as Pauline, the name he parents had given her, or as Posey, the name her friends had given her; only as Mom, the name I had given her. I could...
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