The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die by John Izzo

Author:John Izzo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2008-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

—Leo Buscaglia

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

—Thich Nhat Hanh

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If you listen to 200 people talk about their lives, including people who come from races and backgrounds different from your own, you begin to sense the deep common threads of the human journey. Often, people from very different backgrounds use almost identical words to describe their unique human experience.

One of the phrases I heard most often in these 200 conversations was “it all goes by so fast.” Elsa, in her seventies, perhaps expressed what many people told me in a variety of ways: “When you are young, 60 years seems like an eternity. But after you have lived it, you realize it is but a moment.” We believe we have forever, but soon we realize this is not so.

If life goes by quickly, then one of the secrets to happiness is to get more out of the time we have, to find a way that each moment and each day become great gifts. Thoreau called this “improving the nick of time.” Listening to the stories of people’s lives, I came to see the fourth secret is to live the moment.

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