Live to make every minute matter, from If Only It Were True, by Marc Levy

If you want to know the value of one year, just ask a student who failed a course.

If you want to know the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.

If you want to know the value of one hour, ask the lovers waiting to meet.

If you want to know the value of one minute, ask the person who just missed the bus.

If you want to know the value of one second, ask the person who just escaped death in a car accident.

And if you want to know the value of one hundredth of a second, ask the athlete who won a silver medal in the Olympics.


haggadah Section: Commentary / Readings
Source: Erica Brown, quoting novelist Marc Levy in If Only It Were True