I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

What in life can love not penetrate?

Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

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.