"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"Why do people always say, 'Oh, if I were young again.'? You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.. You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now."
"I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. Really listening to someone - how often do we get this anymore?"
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
So many lessons to learn, I wonder whether I'll get them all at the end of the day. I certainly hope that I don't get them too late.
To my beloved sister and friend, you and your family are in all our prayers. You are loved by many more people in many more ways than you know. Hang in there. Continue to live.
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