“It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai”

“Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

“If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?”

“If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.”

“Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work.Let’s just drive ’em.”

“Doista nisam imao pojma što ću učiniti ili reći nakon što publika otpjeva »Sretan rođendan« Jai. Ali kad sam je pozvao na pozornicu i kada mi je prišla, slijedio sam prirodni impuls. Kao i ona, pretpostavljam. Zagrlili smo se i poljubili, prvo usnama, a onda sam je poljubio u obraz. Publika je nastavila pljeskati. Ćuli smo ih, ali se činilo da su kilometrima daleko od nas.Dok smo stajali zagrljeni, Jai mi je nešto šapnula u uho.— Molim te, nemoj umrijeti.To je zvučalo kao holivudski dijalog. Ali rekla je upravo to. Ja sam je još čvršće zagrlio.”

“Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. Iwon’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. Sotoday, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to knowhow much I’m enjoying it.”I thought about that, and about Jai’s smile.I knew then. That’s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.”