“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, to your community around you, to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I am not bothered by the silence.
For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others - especially not classmates.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He found himself thinking about his childhood.
"Why do you drink so much, Maestro?"
"This is not a music question."
"Are you sad, Maestro?"
"Again, not a music question."
"I am sad sometimes, Maestro."
"Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier."
"Yes, Maestro."
Everyone joins a band in this life.
Sometimes, they are the wrong ones.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all."
I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few minutes, then on with the day. And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease . . .”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. "You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?" I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless.
I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple.. counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed.
How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I asked Morrie if he felt sorry for himself.
"Sometimes, in the mornings," he said.
"That's when I mourn. I feel around my body, I move my fingers and my hands - whatever I can still move - and I mourn what I've lost. I mourn the slow, insidious way in which I'm dying. But then I stop mourning.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I give myself a good cry if I need it.
But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.”
Source: For One More Day
“Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.”
Source: The Stranger in the Lifeboat
“when all this started, I asked myself,
'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?'
I decided I'm going to live---or at least try to live---the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Then why do we do so many bad things?
He sighed. “Because one thing God gave us—and I’m afraid it’s at times a little too much—is free will. Freedom to choose. I believe he gave us everything needed to build a beautiful world, if we choose wisely.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before..
..I feel their anguish as if it were my own.
I don't know any of these people.
But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily is something else.
So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark.”
Source: The Little Liar
“Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed.”
Source: The Little Liar
“I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen; when I saw my stories in print each morning, I knew that, in at least one way, I was alive.
I had grown used to thinking readers somehow needed my column. I was stunned at how easily things went on without me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can’t explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.
“And no matter how far they try to go the other way – to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty – at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When the life comes to an end?”
I shrugged.
“You see?”
He leaned back. He smiled.
“When you come to the end, that’s where God begins.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“And slowly a discussion begins - as Morrie has wanted all along - about the effect of silence on human relations.
Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax..
you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight.
By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Man invents nothing God did not create first.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How 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.
Morrie’s approach was exactly the opposite. 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.”
Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely—but eventually be able to say, “All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Morrie.. had developed his own culture - long before he got sick. He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with colleagues, kept up with old students, wrote letters to distant friends. He took more time eating and looking at nature..
He had created a cocoon of human activities - conversation, interaction, affection - and it filled his life like an overflowing soup bowl.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“Jauh lebih menyenangkan merasa bahwa Tuhan mendengarkanmu dan mengatakan tidak, ketimbang merasa tak ada siapa pun yang mendengarkanmu”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“Happy birthday to you..."
Marguerite emerges, singing in her sweet, soft voice. She looks beautiful, wearing the print dress Eddie likes, her hair and lips done up. Eddie feels the need to inhale, as if undeserving of such a moment. He fights the darkness within him, "Leave me alone," he tells it. "Let me feel this the way I should feel it.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“..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.. which I figured was my natural fate.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”
Source: For One More Day
“Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson.
He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus.
He tells me I need to be "fully human."
He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
