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Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom Quotes ...

"maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'death ends a life, not a relationship.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"Do you take care of others or take care of your 'inner child?' return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or Just Do It?" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'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 nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"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." - Tuesdays with Morrie "As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away." - Mitch Albom, 'Tuesdays with Morrie' "'in business people negotiate to win. they negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you're too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'it's so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced. They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves -- so how can they know who they're marrying?'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'friends are great. But friends are not going to be here on a night when you're coughing and can't sleep and someone has to sit up all night with you, comfort you, try to be helpful.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'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.''" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'love wins. Love always wins.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"there is no such thing as 'too late' in life." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'But the big things -- how we think, what we value -- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone -- or any society -- determine those for you.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'if you've found the meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'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 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 into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'all right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.''" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'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're 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.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"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." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'but I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time -- and the reason -- to do that.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'there are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'there are days when I am depressed. Let me not deceive you. I see certain things going and I feel a sense of dread.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"'I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go.'" - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

"we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship." - Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

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