You cannot unplay your notes. Time, like music, is indelible that way. - Mitch Albom

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are