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Tuesdays with Morrie. Topics covered, "Family becomes even more…
Tuesdays with Morrie. Topics covered
community
"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." BB 42
"The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ...Offering others what you have to give." BB 126
"A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." BB 40
“ the big thing how we think, what we value those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone or any society determine those for you." LV 155
“Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.” LV 163
"find someone to share your heart, give to your community, be at peace with yourself, try to be as human as you can be." LV 34
death
Morries death sentence came in the summer of 1994 - L.V
" death should not be embarrassing " - morrie M.M Pg 98
"Do you think that's strange? Do you think because I'm dying, I shouldn't care what happens in this world." - Morrie M.M 121Pg
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."BB 82
"The truth is...if you accept that you can die at any time--then you might not be as ambitious as you are." BB 83
love
"Death ends a life, not a relationship." BB 174
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." 52 - Morrie
LV
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." BB 52
“Love each other or perish.” BB 149
"love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” BB 133
The important questions have to do with love, responsibility, spirituality, awareness.
175 LV
“Love is the only rational act.” 52 LV
"Kissing him goodbye earned you extra credit "pg 1 MM
forgiveness
"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others." BB 166
" he died of cancer. i feel so sad. i never got to see him. i never got to forgive. it pains me now so much. BB
forgive yourself before you die. BB 164
"its just not other people you need to forgive" MM Pg 66
we need to forgive ourselves MM
“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.” LV 18
work
"I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck" - mitch Pg 27 M.M
"I did what I had become best at doing: i tended to my work even while my dying professor. "- mitch MM Pg 27
"We put out values in the wrong things and its lead to very sad lives " - morrie MM Pg 124
"When you most need it neither money nor power will give you the feelings you're looking for no matter how much of them you have ." - morrie Pg 125 MM
"He could be research like a human textbook" - mitch pg 127 MM
family
'If you don't have the support and love and caring and concer that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.-morrie M.M Pg 91
"this is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them." - morrie M.M Pg 92
. There is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it
isn’t the family. BB 91
Whenever people ask me about having children or not having children i never tell them what to do - Morrie 93 LV
aging
he developed asthma in his 60's BB 6
" Im gonna be the healthiest old man you ever met" BB 82
his hair was thinner, nearly white, his face was gaunt
" because its the ultimate sign of dependency someone wiping your bottom" BB 49
i noticed that he quivered now when he moved his hands pg 88 MM
"the truth is part of me is every age'" pg 120 MM
what I learned from this book is that no matter what forgive people and dont be upset with yourself about not having as much as you wanted because there is always someone who has less than you and dont take anything for granted especially life. BB
"Family becomes even more important."-morries MM Pg 91