Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
It's a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso- Dante's Paradise. 'My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars. ' Dante was trying to explain faith, I thnk, as an overpowering love, and maybe it's blasphemous, but that's how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me.
It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!
To choose always the hardest.
Sometimes--sometimes it just hits me, you know? And, it's not getting any easier. " I choke, my eyes flooding all over again. "I'm not sure that it will. I think you just get used to the feeling, the hollowness, the loss, and somehow learn to live around it