Then why do we do so many bad things?He sighed. Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to...
That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Sacrifice, The Captain said. You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost.You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s suppo...
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?-Morrie
But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.He let it pass.
When he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as too late in life.
It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.
I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head.A child should never have to choose.
Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way. So which side wins, I ask? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. Love wins. Love always wins.
When you are measuring life, you are not living it...
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...
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?
I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.
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 every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.