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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it”; “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others”; “Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved.”
“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”
He had created a cocoon of human activities—conversation, interaction, affection—and it filled his life like an overflowing soup bowl.
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
We all have the same beginning—birth—and we all have the same end—death. So how different can we be?
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“Today, I give to you.”
