“Life is NOT short! It's just by the time we catch up to appreciating it...we've already left life at least halfway behind us.”

“It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself.”

“That's why we call them belongings, because they give us a sense of belonging to something when we've left behind one life and have no compass to guide us through the next.”

“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.”

“We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.”

“As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.”