Status Updates From ليونارد وهنجري بول

“Solitude and peace lose their specialness when they no longer stand in contrast to anything. In a busy—or at least busier—life, quiet reflection provides resonance to experience. But to deprive life of experiences deliberately and to hide from its realities was not special. It was just another form of fear that led to a life-limiting loneliness that accumulated and accumulated…”

What I learned is that everyone in your life has an invisible number on their foreheads, which represents the number of times you will see them again. It might be zero, one or it could be one thousand, but it’s a number. We don’t have unlimited time with people. It’s a lesson to appreciate people while we can. Don’t put people off. Don’t think you can make up time later

For a “comedy” I do be cryin

“Some children might only ever read one book about the Romans and this one might be it. What if they were turned off history? Or worse: what if they were inspired by the example of the Romans to become their own little Caesars of the playground, making life difficult for the gentle, curious kids Leonard wanted the book to be read by? No, no, no, that wouldn’t do.”

“They had always seen themselves as the bumpers along the bowling lane for him to bounce between, saving him from mundane dangers and guiding him towards his achievements, modest though they were. It was sincere, well-meant and maybe even necessary. And yet, when you love somebody it can be hard to know where the boundary of solicitude ends and interference begins.”