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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.
She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?
I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.
Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.
She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.
Please, please, please, please, please...,", squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!
The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
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.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.
There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.