Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going....

No one gets left behind, remember?

Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family yo have yet to come to know.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we’d like her back, thanks.

Got an hour or two? That’s all it takes for one of my books.

My funeral,” the Blue Man said. “Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they...

You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here…Death ends life, not a relationship.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

Much of what we called “depression” was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren’t willing to work for.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won’t they, Rose? You want to ask,’Whose child is this?'”Rose chuckled.”But usually, they’re just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.

For better or for worse, I’ve watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they’re not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody’s hand. And that’s...

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.But now and then, a miracle is declared...

I used to think I knew everything. I was a “smart person” who “got things done,” and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed...

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu

When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart.

you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that’s what separates a life story that can influence other people.

I knew he was right, … Not that I did anything about it.

Behind all your stories is always your mother’s story. Because hers is where yours begin.

Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them.

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...

You’ve lived through a lot of wars, I said. “Yes.”Do they ever make more sense?”No.

Trees spend all day looking up at God.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word “divorce” came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant “divide.” In truth, it comes from “divertere,” which means...

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions...

It’s not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. ” He finally whispered, “We also need to forgive ourselves.

I don’t know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

Pengorbanan. Kau membuat pengorbanan. Aku membuat pengorbanan. Kita semua membuat pengorbanan. Tapi kau merasa marah atas pengorbanan yang kau berikan. Kau selalu memikirkan apa yang telah kau korbankan. Kau belum mengerti. Pengorbanan adalah bagian kehidupan....

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Sometimes never.

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every...

What is false about hope?

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And...

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I’ve always been much more interested in one...

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. I’m expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

I love you every day,Mom

Going back to something is harder than you think.

But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love...