Tuesdays With Morrie

Pg. 42

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."

Pg. 43

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

Pg. 52

Pg. 40

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.'"

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."

Sounds like a wrestling match.

"Yes, you could describe life that way."

So which side wins?

"Which side wins?"

"Love wins. Love always wins."

Pg. 61

"'You see,' he says to the girl, '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 people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

Pg. 53

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my life?

Pg. 81

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things different."

Pg. 118

Pg. 81

"Is today the day I die?"

"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 that you live a better life because of it."

Pg. 118-119

Pg. 82

Pg. 121

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"How can I be envious of where you are--when I've been there myself?"

"All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. And Mitch? The fact is, you are going to die eventually."

M o r r i e

"Fate succumbs many species: one alone jeopardizes itself." -W. H. Auden

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn." -Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesdays With Morrie

Pg. 79

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Pg. 91

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all"

an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

BY: Ryan Owens and Moses Perez

Mitch Albom