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Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. You notice, there's nothing in there about a salary.
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Intenta imaginar como seria la vida si no contasemos el tiempo. Lo mas probable es que no puedas. Sabes en que mes, ano y dia de la semana te encuentras. En la pared, o en el salpicadero de tu coche, hay un reloj. Tienes un horario, un calendario, una hora para comer o ir al cine. Pero a tu alrededor se ignora el computo del tiempo. los pajaros no se retrasan. No hay perros que miren el reloj. Los ciervos no temen olvidar los cumpleanos. So..
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all she said was, "I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone."
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Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?" Eddie shrugged. "Better," she said, "to be loyal to one another."
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The story of my recent life. I like that phrase. It makes more sense than the story of my life, because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality-- and, in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
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Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete."
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Mitch Albom |
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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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that holding on to things "will only break your heart." So he avoided attachments,"
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Mitch Albom |
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You are here so I can teach you something. That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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She hugged her arms around his chest and leaned her head into his shoulder. She did this every night, and like most small demonstrations of love, it had a large impact. Dor felt a surge of calm whenever she held him, like being wrapped in a blanket, and he knew no one else would ever love or understand him the way she did. He nestled his face into her long dark hair, and he breathed a way he never breathed except when he was with her.
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Mitch Albom |
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But a clock ticks for all of us, silently, somewhere.
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Mitch Albom |
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Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour.
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Mitch Albom |
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He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.
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Mitch Albom |
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The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough
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Mitch Albom |
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That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another
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Mitch, it is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and now is my time to be seventy-eight. "You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue." He exhaled and lowered his eyes, as if to watch his bre..
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Collingswood
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Every family is a ghost story.
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love
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Learn how to die, and you learn how to live." I"
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But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.
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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." Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could d..
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Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --HENRY ADAMS"
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We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?" He"
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Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.
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Mitch Albom |
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When you come to the end, that's where God begins." Many"
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Getting old, we can deal with. Being old is the problem.
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You closed your eyes. That was the difference. 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, even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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We are involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying , Is this all? Is this all i want? Is something missing?
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Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.
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He leaned in close. He saw his father's dirty hands. He spoke the last familiar words in a whisper. "Its' fixed."
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Cuando eres malo contigo mismo te vuelves malo con todos los demas, incluso con aquellos a los que amas.
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Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.
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Cover design by Phil Rose
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And thus, unknowingly, did Dor begin to serve his sentence-- to hear every plea from every soul who desired more of the thing he had first identified, the thing that moved man further from the simple light of existence and deeper into the darkness of his own obsessions. Time. It seemed to be running too fast for everyone but him.
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Fear is how you lose your life... a little bit at a time... What we give to fear, we take away from... faith.
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His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton.
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Knowing heaven . . . is what heals us on earth.
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Counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down.
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The Reb once did a sermon on how the same things in life can be good or evil, depending on what, with free will, we do with them. Speech can bless or curse. Money can save or destroy. Science can heal or kill. Even nature can work against you: fire can warm or burn, water can sustain life or flood it away.
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Es una pena perder el tiempo. Siempre creemos tener mucho.
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Mitch Albom |
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But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without."
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Mitch Albom |
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Unlike any man before him, Dor was being allowed to exist without getting older, to not use a single breath of the numbered breaths of his life. But inside, Dor was broken. Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.
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If earthly mortals were being contacted by souls in heaven, Tess, a Catholic, had been the first.
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