And a piece of advice that she thought was one of the most important things she wanted to pass on: You should tell your family every day that you love them. And make sure they know that you’re proud o...
As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questi...
I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I ha...
Kokoro, a remarkable novel by Natsume Soseki,
Everyone doesn’t have to do everything. she told me .people forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. i’ve had so much pleasure from beautiful things created by ot...
1. Ask: Do you want to talk about how you’re feeling? 2. Don’t ask if there’s anything you can do. Suggest things, or if it’s not intrusive, just do them. 3. You don’t have to talk all the time. Somet...
A phrase the doctor used had reassured Mom—treatable but not curable.
Books had always been a way for my mother and me to introduce and explore topics that concerned us but made us uneasy, and they had also always given us something to talk about when we were stressed o...
But I do want you to look after each other. I’ll be very cross if I hear that any of you are fighting. And if anyone causes trouble, I’ll come back from the grave and get ’em.
But missing people and being lonely, she pointed out, are two separate things.
How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.
It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country
Loneliness can kill people—in different ways can actually make you die. Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as ‘big bursts’ and ‘little bursts.’ Big bursts are things like...
1. You have nothing to fear. Remember that your vote is secret. Only you and your God know how you vote. 2. People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain:...
And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.
Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking How are you feeling? and Do you want me to ask how you’re feeling? Even if it’s your mother whom you’re questioning, the first app...
He starts to whisper a prayer. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hur...
Hidden away, the people of the streets drift into sleep induced by alcohol or agitated by despair, into dreams that carry them back to the lives that once were theirs.
I asked Mom why she thought that was, and she pointed out that joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they’ve realized and achieved, or how they are remembered.
A philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a chair, you need to realize that someone made that chair, and some...
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