It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Adversity is the hidden treasures of life.

The truth is our generation would rather spend money to attend events to prove to people that they can than actually enjoying the moments themselves.©SaccheenLaing2015

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I don't remember much about my bar mitzvah. The only thing I remember - I killed! That's what I remembered. Nobody could follow me at my bar-mitzvah. It was over when I was done.

The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.

Because Washington state now votes by mail, elections here tend to play out, at an agonizingly slow speed, over many days and, sometimes, weeks.

Music is an addiction.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

The roots of the aged palm tree exceed those of the young one; the old have a greater attachment to the world.