I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

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.

I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.

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

Parents rarely let go 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 heart 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.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.