A moving meditation on mortality by a gifted writer whose dual perspectives of physician and patient provide a singular clarity. Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways – as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.” Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.

Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” Well written & engagingly detailed this read is a must for anyone who wants 2 know more about the race divide that inspired true human spirit;... Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972, University of Georgia Press ( Lillian Smith Book Award winner, 1995)

My Book Notes

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? Hope — Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us…A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.”

Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.” Quality of life means more than just consumption”: Two MIT economists urge that a smarter, more politically aware economics be brought to bear on social issues. Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow after you have done your best to achieve success today.” Ninety nine percent of the time we have an opportunity to be grateful for something. We just don't notice it. We go through our days in a daze.”Never give up believing that there is hope for better days to come. Bad things happen for a reason and sometimes it is to bring us to those better days.” Pause and remember nothing lasts forever. Better days are coming, but they will come faster with faith.” urn:isbn:1440683255 Republisher_date 20120417034744 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20120416095857 Scanner scribe10.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Source And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. “We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

Then I think that today's post filled with the most powerful better days ahead quotes will be useful. When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.” In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”