The 5 People You Meet In Heaven

It may be hard to believe, but yes everyone, I read a book. Finally. I read The 5 People You Meet In Heaven and enjoyed it very much. I would suggest it to anyone. It combines a story of death with a love story and a history lesson all in one. I found many inspirational quotes and wanted to share them. I hope will convince some of you out there to pick it up. It’s a quick and refreshing read!

“This is the greatest gift God can give to you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”
 

“There are not random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”
 

“’Fairness’, he said, ‘does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.’”
 

“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”
 

“That is what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”
 

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices.”
 

“’Things that happen before you are born still affect you,’ she said. ‘And all people who come before your time affect you as well.”
 

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time-we often think they began with our arrival. That’s not true.”
 

“Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”…..“Forgive, Edward. Forgive.”
 

“No one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it.”
 

“People say they “find” love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman.”
 

“Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”
 

“Lost love is still love…it takes a different form, that’s all.”
 

“Life has to end,” she said. “Love doesn’t.”
 

“…the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”