It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat...
There is nothing perfect...only life.
I AM A VICTIM OF A CHAIN OF ACCIDENTS, LIKE ALL OF US.
Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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.
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself. Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. Life is a series of pulls...
The culture we have does not make people feel ood about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. -Morrie
In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?
Eddie admitted that some of his life he'd spent hiding from God, and the rest of the time he thought he went unnoticed.
Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy
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.
One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times-or you will be useless.
One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.
No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual...
I shot you, all right, he said, and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too.What?I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.
This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.
Something is always happening somewhere.
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...
Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made 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...
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...
Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...