Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
Mitch AlbomTurn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It wonโt hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, โAll right, itโs just fear, I donโt have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Mitch AlbomWhen a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.
Mitch AlbomAs mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting lifeโs moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.
Mitch Albom