“In light of this, my visits with Morrie felt like a cleansing rinse of human kindness.
We talked about life and we talked about love.
We talked about one of Morrie's favourite subjects, compassion and why our society had such a shortage of it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Man suffers for his art.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“Sarah Lemon: “It just felt like... the end.”
Dor: “Ends are for yesterdays, not tomorrows.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?"
He made a fist.
"Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'
"But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson."
What lesson? I asked.
He stretched open his empty fingers.
"We can take nothing with us.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“No one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
Source: For One More Day
“If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“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
“Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is 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
“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 creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. IF you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more then the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand your going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Listen. You should know something. 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 again any how.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem:
'My dear and loving cousin..
Your ageless heart
as you ,love through time, layer on layer,
tender sequoia..'
.. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”
Source: For One More Day
“That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the end of his privacy..
And that was the end of his secret.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent.
The world, I discovered, was not all that interested.
I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He told her the new names. No more Dippers or Tumble Bugs. Everything was the Blizzard, the Mind Bender, Top Gun, the Vortex. "Sounds strange, doesn't it?" Eddie said.
"It sounds, she said, wistfully, "like someone else's summer."
Eddie realized that was precisely what he had been feeling for years.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas nebėra ypatinga. Be netekčių ar aukos mes nesugebame įvertinti to, ką turime.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“-Dievas riboja mūsų dienų skaičių ne be priežasties.
-Kokia to priežastis?
-Kad kiekviena diena būtų brangi.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“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. It’s what I missed so much when my mother died—what I call your ‘spiritual security’—knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have.
I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“His mind had forgotten the pathway to his voice.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“He [the Lord] squinted against the sun.
'Worry is something you create.'
'Why would we create worry?' [Nina]
'To fill a void.'
'A void of what?'
'Faith.”
Source: The Stranger in the Lifeboat
“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’.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“How can I—how can any of us—let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death. You educated me, married us, comforted us. You stood at our mileposts, our weddings, our funerals. You gave us the courage when tragedy struck, and when we howled at God, you stirred the embers of our faith and reminded us, as a respected man once said, that the only whole heart is a broken heart.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“It is not your memories which haunt you.
It is not what you have written down.
It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget.
What you must go on forgetting all your life.
JAMES FENTON, "A German Requiem”
Source: The Little Liar
“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Do you remember the lightness you felt when you first arrived in heaven?'
Eddie did. Where is my pain?
'That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.'
She touched his hand.
'You need to forgive your father.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“I seemed to slip in a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.”
“Is this what comes at the end, I wondered?
Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“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.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“She held out her arms. And for the first time in heaven, he initiated his contact, he came to her, ignoring the leg, ignoring all the ugly associations he had made about dance and music and weddings, realizing now that they were about loneliness.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Eddie doesn't answer. The old darkness has taken a seat beside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commute on a crowded bus.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“No life is a waste... The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Going back to something is harder than you think."
I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.”
Source: For One More Day
“Francisco Presto: How do you know you are in love, Maestro?
El Maestro: If you are asking, you are not.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Servant of God: In this cave, you will not age a moment.
Dor: I deserve no such gift.
Servant of God: It is not a gift.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. 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.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”
Source: For One More Day
“Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
'Life has to end,' she said. 'Love doesn't.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“The little things, I can obey. 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.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
