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“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
- Mitch Albom
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We are always thinking about time. We count it by year down to its smallest measurement. Sometimes we wish it would speed up or slow down. But what happens if time stops?
This is a story of 3 people. One who wanted to stop time. Another who wanted to slow it while the other who wanted to extend it.
This is another book you can't put down once you started reading. Mitch Albom never fails to amaze me with his way of writing. Quoted from the book, “Remember
this always: There is a reason God limits man’s days.” “What
is the reason?” “Finish your journey and you will know.”
I recommend that you read this book. Journey with these 3 characters and life's great lesson.
Here are some extracts from the book that I've highlighted:
-Man alone measures time. Man
alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing
fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out. -p27
-That night he observed a quarter
moon through the clouds, and he used it to mark the moment, the light of the
night they were wed. -p44
-Consider the word “time.” -p48
-Before you measure the years,
you measure the days.p78
-Learn what you do not
know...“Understand the consequences of counting the moments.” -p106
-He was watching Dor the way a father
watches a sleeping son. p102
-“Learn what you do not know,”
the old man said. “Understand the consequences of counting the moments.” p106
-People fretted over missed
chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they
would live, because counting life’s moments had led, inevitably, to counting
them down. Soon,
in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.P135
-But
man invents nothing God did not create first. p152
-Mankind is connected in ways it does not
understand—even in dreams. P152
-“You
marked the minutes,” the old man said. “But did you use them wisely? To be still?
To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?” p173
-“Remember
this always: There is a reason God limits man’s days.”
“What
is the reason?” “Finish your journey and you will know.” p174
-Then
a French mathematician tied a string to a timepiece, put it around his wrist,
and man began to wear time on his body.
-“What
time is it?” became one of the world’s most common questions, found on page one
of every foreign-language instruction book. p235
-But a
man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without
memories is just a shell. p270
-“We
all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.” p294
-But
you grab a moment, or you let it pass. p313
-…knowing
something and understanding it were not the same thing. p321
-And
when hope is gone, time is punishment. p351
-What
was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was
always
movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling
sand. p359
-…hurting
ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved. p414
-Time
is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer.
To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”
“What’s
that?”
“Hope.”
p425
-“Ends
are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.” p426
-“With
endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate
what we have.” p450
-There
was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish
more in each day. The simple joy of living between sunrises was gone. p453
-Man
wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.” p453
-But
fates are connected in ways we don’t understand. p459
-We do not realize the sound the world makes—unless,
of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an
orchestra. p467
-..someplace
far away— someplace indescribable in the pages of a
book—a man named Dor and a woman named Alli run barefoot up a hillside, tossing
stones, laughing with their children, and time never crosses their minds.
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