The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. MOHANDAS GANDHI.
Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth?” Cleo asked. “People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It’s a shame.” She looked to the sky, now a deep shade of purple. “We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth.
Y sin esperanza, el tiempo es un castigo.
Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help.
Then, in Annie’s new grasp, Cleo’s womanly frame shrank down. Her coat tightened and became her fur. Her legs pulled in. Her ears and snout elongated. She was revealed as the puppy she used to be on earth, and she panted as Annie held her up and said, “There you are. Cleo. Cleee-o!
All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence. And now, someplace beyond death, Eddie slumped against a stainless steel wall and dropped into a snowbank, stung again by the denial of a man whose love, almost inexplicably, he still coveted, a man ignoring him, even in heaven. His father. The damage done.
Dying,” Morris suddenly said, “is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.
It was so important to me, I thought it should be important to him. I thought that was love.
If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
Of course, there were a million self-help books on these subjects, and plenty of cable TV shows, and $9 per-hour consultation sessions. America had become a Persian bazaar of self-help.
God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn’t punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.
Remember the memories.
I believe in being fully present.
I believe, as the Reb once told me, that, with a little faith, people can fix things, and they truly can change, because at that moment, you could not believe otherwise.
Sully did this now, finished unfinished sentence, believing that the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.
Man rarely knows his own power,” the old man said.
You counted the minutes, but did you use them wisely?
We’re teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.
He draped himself in her sad memory, because it was the closest thing to having her around.