“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

“God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love”

“how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.”

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. It's amazing to me how much we do, but how little time we spend reflecting on what we just did.”

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

“There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?”

“In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?”

“Health care costs so darn much because we pay so darn little for it… So we have almost no incentive to care about how much it cost… Most of what we spend on health care is other people’s money. We never spend other people’s money as carefully as we spend our own.”

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”