Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.