It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
You don’t understand. You’re not a wave. You’re part of the ocean.
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.
Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.
Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.
Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.
Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.
Build a little community of those you love and who love you.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.
We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
Are you trying to be as human as you can be?
I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here’s the secret, in between, we need others as well.
The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?
Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.