I mourn my dwindling time, but i cherish the chance it gives me to make things right.
I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness – but it is Morrie’s softness that draws me, and because he doesn’t look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.
Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.
Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It’s a shame.
I earned a mater’s degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.
And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God’s happy.
He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty. But then, he didn’t worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.
Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost.
He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.
You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
How could there be new life in his beard when it was draining everywhere else?
He opened his eyes. He exhaled. “You know what the Buddhists say? Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
Even God couldn’t be that cruel.
An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you’ll make something of yourself.
Kita mengira kebencian adalah senjata untuk melawan orang yang melukai kita, tapi kebencian adalah pisau melengkung. Dan kerusakan yang kita lakukan pada orang lain, kita lakukan pula pada diri sendiri.
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. “The backside of a 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.
Mungkin ini akan terasa aneh untuk memulai sebuah kisah dengan sebuah akhir. Tapi semua akhir juga merupakan permulaan. Kita hanya belum mengetahuinya saat itu.
How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you?
Hidup memang saling berhubungan, seluruh kehidupan adalah satu. Karena kehidupan sebelum kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan kita. Dan kehidupan kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan setelah kita.
When people tell me that I’m good, my response is, ‘I’m trying.’ But there’s some people that know me from back when – anytime I make that trip to New York – and when they hear I’m the pastor of a church, all of a sudden, it’s like “I know you gettin’ paid, boy. I know you gettin’ paid. I know you.’” He paused. His voice lowered. “No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person that I’m trying to become.