The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Lately, I've been resorting to "feel good" positive activities.
I just finished the book, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Absolutely loved it. It's one of those books that is an easy read and can be finished in one sitting.
Since I'm a nut for writing down quotes, here are some I noted from the book:
"No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river" (10)
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed" (48).
"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." (50)
"A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered - it all demands a fierce revenge, a balancing of the accounts." (82)
"Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning." (91)
"ALL PARENTS DAMAGE their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, other crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged pieces, beyond repair." (104)
"Parents rarely let of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them- a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the hear weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives." (126)
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We thinking 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." (141)
"People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love." (155)
"LOVE, LIKE RAIN, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive." (165)
"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it... Life has to end... Love doesn't." (173)
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Good night world! <3
I just finished the book, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Absolutely loved it. It's one of those books that is an easy read and can be finished in one sitting.
Since I'm a nut for writing down quotes, here are some I noted from the book:
"No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river" (10)
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed" (48).
"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone." (50)
"A freed soldier is often furious. The days and nights he lost, the torture and humiliation he suffered - it all demands a fierce revenge, a balancing of the accounts." (82)
"Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning." (91)
"ALL PARENTS DAMAGE their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, other crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged pieces, beyond repair." (104)
"Parents rarely let of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them- a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the hear weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives." (126)
"Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We thinking 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." (141)
"People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love." (155)
"LOVE, LIKE RAIN, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive." (165)
"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it... Life has to end... Love doesn't." (173)
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Good night world! <3