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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise
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Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows." Dor"
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Monsieur Django, I presume?" Duke Ellington said, offering his hand. "Monsieur"
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He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, "Body and Soul."
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. MOHANDAS GANDHI
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Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i.
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Then why, I asked, is the world so fractured? "Well, you can look at it this way. Would you want the world to all look alike? No. The genius of life is its variety. "Even in our own faith, we have questions and answers, interpretations, debates. In Christianity, in Catholicism, in other faiths, the same thing--debates, interpretations. That is the beauty. It's like being a musician. If you found the note, and you kept hitting that note all ..
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One of my disciples, a lanky saxophonist named Sonny Rollins, played his horn for three years on a bridge in New York City, his tender jazz melodies wafting between the traffic noises. I would pause there often, on the girders, just to listen. Or
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Lovely, isn't it?" What? "Life," he said."
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And facing death changes all that? "Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently. He"
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What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No other talent gives your life a soundtrack. I am Music. I mark time.
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But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye."
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If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But there's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
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You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance--to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse? As a free form of expression, I will never understand it.
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Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." I"
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My mother inhaled.
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Man rarely knows his own power," the old man said."
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Holding on to things "will only break your heart."
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He tolerated it until he could tolerate it no more.
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Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days.
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He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless."
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When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes - unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
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It is said that the earliest spark for the telephone came when Alexander Bell was still in his teens. He noticed how, if he sang a certain note near an open piano, the string of that note would vibrate, as if singing back to him. He sang an A; the A string shook. The idea of connecting voices through a wire was born.
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He was pitching to me before I could walk. He gave me wooden bat before my mother let me use scissors. He said I could make the major leagues one day if I had "a plan," and if I "stuck to the plan" Of course, when you're that young, you nest in your parents' plans, not your own."
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I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I
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Maybe it's like my old man said: You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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The tension of opposites? "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." --
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They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty. "To"
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too.
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When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say, 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us." For"
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It was so important to me, I thought it should be important to him. I thought that was love.
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A military chaplain told me the following story: "'A soldier's little girl, whose father was being moved to a distant post, was sitting at the airport among her family's meager belongings. "The girl was sleepy. She leaned against the packs and duffel bags. "A lady came by, stopped, and patted her on the head. "'Poor child,' she said. 'You haven't got a home.' "The child looked up in surprise. "But we do have a home,' she said. 'We just don'..
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God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.
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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.
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A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.
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You know what really gives you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.
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younger. In addition to his imposing presence and his brilliant reputation, there were his sermons. Delivered with passion, humor, roaring indignation or stirring whispers, the sermon, for Albert Lewis, was like the fastball for a star pitcher, like the aria for Pavarotti. It was the reason people came; we knew it--and deep down, I think he knew it. I'm sure there are congregations where they slip out before the sermon begins. Not ours. Wri..
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I never said good-bye.' 'Such a needless word, she said, 'when you love somebody.
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Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
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