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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. 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.

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You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.

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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don't know everything. And since we don't know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.

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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

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But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

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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 wouldn't.

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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

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Sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

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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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He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

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Dor shook his head. The phrase. What does it mean? Sarah wondered if he was kidding. Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbye and it's like no time passed at all? His eyes drifted. He liked it. Time flies. With you, she added.

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Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.

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I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.

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This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've find meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

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Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

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I made such a fool of myself, she lamented. Love does not make you a fool. He didn't love me back. That does not make you a fool, either. Just tell me … Her voice cracked. When does it stop hurting? Sometimes never.

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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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It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

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Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

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To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

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It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

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When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

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You have to start over. That's what they say. 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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Timing is everything. That's right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it's the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

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When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

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