Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.