Sublime

“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 somet

Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. It’s become quite clear to me as I’ve been sick. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love e

And in spite of a million reasons for living in self-pity, he had within him—every day—the amazing capacity to make coin purses and share his soda pop with others.

He wanted so much to hold on to his successes and not let them fade away into the dull clamor of normal life.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

When your culture tells a great story, everybody wins.

the character is rescued by somebody or something else that they needed in order for them to be made complete.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.