I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.
There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.
Mankind’s greatest gift… is that we have free choice.
Our concern must be to live while we’re alive … to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature’s way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’
I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.