It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.
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Zum Autor"When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness."
"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute."
"However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident."
"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them."
"What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.'Fear?' he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?'That's big.'Yes. But there's something else.'What else?He leaned forward.'Being forgotten,' he whispered."
"It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done."