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Tuesdays With Morrie

“God, what gorgeous writing. Like I do with all great books, I kept have to stop and step away every few pages to think about what I’d just read. Crybaby is tender and full of carefully chosen, luxurious language. It’s poem after poem of sensual, w

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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Lessons in Life, Love, life advice

“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Life

“Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Afraid, Losing Yourself

“I like myself better when I’m with you.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Relationship, People

“It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-improvement, Age, Death

“Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-improvement, Potential, possibilities

“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it… Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on t…”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Detachment, Indifference, Pain

“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself: All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Empathy, Apathy, Fear

“Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself that I WILL.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Resilience, perseverance, strength

“The biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a…”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Materialism, Capitalism, Social Class, Wealth, Poverty

“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Ask for forgiveness from others. Forgiveness can soften the heart, drain the bitterness, and dissolve your guilt.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: forgiveness, Self Healing, Internalized Guilt, Moving Forward

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Compassion

“If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Social Class, Impressing Others

“Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Self Improvement

“It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as apart of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature… We’re not.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Nature, Perspective

“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Capitalism, Materialism

“Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that’s what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it–and have it repeated to us–over and over until nob…”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Capitalism, Materialism

“Society teaches us to be number one, but who ever said there was something wrong with being number two?”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Life, The Universe

“You don't understand. You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Life, The Universe