It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To...

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from...

To live is to be haunted.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the...

He thought of all the ways that so many people felt about life. Life was a matter of regret--how could it be anything else? We knew that we would lose the things we loved; we knew that sooner or later...

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

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.