One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning...

Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.’Fifty-six,’ Eddie said blankly.Fifty-six,’ the old woman repeated. ‘His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold...

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Sentiment is wherever you go.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never realized I was doing it,

The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain– no matter how smart or accomplished–they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on...

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more...

Time flies with you

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that ‘ s all. You can ‘ t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance...

the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we...

The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why we tried so hard to make our mark in America. To be known. Think of...

I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of...

Mortality means you don’t have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you’re going to think: ‘I’ve left things a little late.’

I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it’s a lifetime in itself.

None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded. But, … there is no such thing as “too late” in life.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match…Which side win? Love wins....

No life is a waste,” the Blue Man said. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.

A funeral is no place for secrets.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

You have to work at creating your own culture.

He thought I was just ignoring him, … I told him that if I had gotten the letter, of course I would have called. And he just let it go as if it never happened.

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

Fear is how you lose your life…a little bit at a time…What we give to fear, we take away from…faith.

All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is”.

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

I’ve always said I have one skill. That skill – if I have it at all – is storytelling.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can’t remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose...

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you’ve touched while you were here on earth.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.

We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”And facing death changes that?”Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the...

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping...

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.