Don't Go, Library Book

Just some favorite quotes from the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom since it's a library book, and I will inevitably have to return it.
Interestingly enough, all this reading I've been doing has had a common theme. It's funny because what sparked my interest to read these different books were not from the same source. In fact, they were all completely different, yet they connect to each other. The authors mention the others works or review them, and I sit there dumbfounded.

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

"Every-one knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."

"Human beings wanting to feel that they mattered."

"Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth."

"I am every age, up to my own."

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

"People are only mean when they're threatened."

"If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way way we care about our own."

"What's wrong with being number two?"

"Be compassionate..and take responsibility for each other."

"We think because we're human we're something above nature."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

"The story is about a little wave, bobbing in the ocean, having a grand old time. He's enjoying the wind and the fresh air- until he notices the other waves in front of him, crashing against the shore.
'My God, this is terrible, the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me!'
Then along comes another wave. It sees the first wave, looking grim, and it says to him, 'Why do you look so sad?'
The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?'
The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'"