- Love wins. Love always wins
- The most important thing in life to learn is to let love in. Most of us don't think we deserve love but we do
- It's only horrible if you look at it that way. Seen from another, it can be wonderful
- Sometimes you can't believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel
- A teacher affects eternity as you can never tell where their influence stops
- Everybody knows they're going to die but nobody believes it or else they'd live life differently.
- Once you learn how to die you learn how to live
- Trying to impress those above you will only lead to derision and trying to please those below only to envy. Simply be
- People are only mean when threatened. And that's what our culture does, what our economy does
- The problem is we don't think we're as alike as we are
- All people are alike in the sense that we all want to be loved, heard, respected, cared for, listened to
- This disease is knocking at my spirit but it will not have my spirit. It will take my body, but not my spirit
- Forgive yourself before you die and then forgive others
- We're all looking for a sense of peace with death. Once we achieve that we can face death
- Death becomes such a big deal for most people because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We see ourselves as above nature
- The big issues most of us avoid confronting deal with awareness, responsibility, love and spirituality
- There is no such thing as too late in life
- Giving is living
- Never live with regret. Forgive yourself and others and move on
What I got out of it
- A beautiful and heart-warming book on what is really important in life - love, relationships, giving, forgiveness