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I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides … I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming...

Non omnis moriar, said Horace's Odes-I shall not wholly die. Yes, and he was right. As long as people remembered, then death was not complete. Only if there were nobody at all left to remember would...

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

But that's what the world is all about, Jamie. Stories. Stories explain everything, bring everything together.

That was what the story of Goldilocks and the three bears was all about: breach of trust.

I believe in being fully present.That means you should be with the person you're with. ...I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

ness-that Morrie was looking at life from some very different place than anyone else I knew. A healthier place. A more sensible place. And he was about to die.But it was also becoming clear to me-...

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, All right, that was my moment of loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going...

He wrote bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow: Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn...

Once we want to know how we will die, we learn how we should live {pg 87, Tuesdays With Morrie}

Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows...

Life is too short, and DNA too long.

Dying is not in synonymous with Useless

Our culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting...

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. Malcolm

Grant liked kids-it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they stared open-mouthed at the big skeletons rising above them....

Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable.

Mma Ramotswe had been understanding. Men who sired children and then failed to accept responsibility for them were anathema to her, and she reserved particular disapproval for those who then...

Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between

As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You...

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my...

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

But it seems alone, completely alone in the universe, a piece of a shipwreck in the Atlantic width

It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

This amazing force in the sins of the whale never tends to obstruct the graceful furniture in its movements, where the graceful ease is woven through the tyranny of power. Rather, the opposite is...

Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science...