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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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Mitch Albom (19)Morrie Schwartz (17)

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Lov…”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, Marriage

“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, Learning, Moving Forward

“It’s okay to cry.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Masculinity, cry

“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”

— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com

Tagged: Soft, Softness, Capitalism, Materialism

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Selfie Captions, Accepting Who You Are, Authentic, Truth, Selfie Captions

“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: Love You Haven't Found Yet, Love, Let Love In, Give Out Love, Life Lessons

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: cry

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Don't Let Go, Hold On

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Love Wins

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

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Love

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself int…”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: emotions, Detached, vulnerability, Experience

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: live, Die, Life, Learning

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Believe, falling, Feeling

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, alive

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Acceptance

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”

— Mitch Albom, amazon.com

Tagged: Letting Go, Life, Moving On, Acceptance, Knowledge