I love you every day, Mom

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

Holding on to things only breaks your heart.