"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" Quotes
A man finds unexpected connections with five people in the afterlife who help him understand the true meaning and value of his life.
fiction | 196 pages | Published in 2003
Quotes
Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
Every life has one true love snapshot.
This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that by hating someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others, we also do to ourselves.
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces beyond repair.
When you are truly content with who you are, you no longer need to compare yourself to others.
Life has to end, Eddie. Love doesn't.
People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
