“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“At some point, you get tired of reliving the past. You’re ready for what comes next.”
Source: Twice
“A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way."
So which side wins, I ask?
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Keadilan tidak mengatur persoalan hidup atau mati. Kalau keadilan yang mengatur, tidak akan ada orang baik mati muda”
“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.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie
“A veces no eres capaz de creerte lo que ves, tienes que creer lo que sientes. Y si quieres que los demás lleguen a confiar en ti, tu debes sentir que puedes confiar en ellos, aunque estés a oscuras. Aunque estés cayendo"- Morrie Schwartz”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Bend your right arm and relax your right hand," El Maestro instructed. "Do not squeeze it in; you are not choking something. And do not push down; you are not drowning something. Your right fingers are talking to the strings. Would you talk to someone by choking or drowning them?"
"No, Maestro."
"No, you would not."
"What do I do with my left hand?"
“The left hand finds the beauty. She makes the notes and chords. You can show off all you want with your right hand, boy, but you are nothing without the left, understand? “
“Yes, Maestro”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm.
"And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
“He wondered why God was always mentioned in the most unusual moments of his life.”
Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
“It is too late."
The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be."
He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“It's only horrible if you see it that way," Morrie said. "It's horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it's also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye."
He smiled. "Not everyone is so lucky.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“What was the constant?
Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The
pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow
of time completely …”
Source: The Time Keeper
“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me.
.. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied.
What happened to me?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“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.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside his shrivelling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillows, I had the coldest realisation that our time was running out.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops -Henry Adams”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought u wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.”
Source: For One More Day
“How simple, if you knew the consequences, to avoid the dumb mistakes you make in life.”
Source: Twice
“Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished, everyone applauded. He could have stayed in that moment forever.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“On earth, Marguerite said, when you fell asleep, you sometimes dreamed your heaven and those dreams helped to form it.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“How long have i been dead?
A minute. An hour. A thousand years”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“How do you let go of anger? How do you release a fury you’ve been standing on for so long, you would stumble were it yanked away?”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.”
Source: The First Phone Call From Heaven
“If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.”
“The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“And then he wakes up. Sweating. Panting. Always the same. The worst part is not the sleeplessness. The worst part is the general darkness the dream leaves over him, a gray film that clouds over the day. Even his happy moments feel encased, like holes jabbed in a hard sheet of ice.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country," Morrie sighed. "Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning tings 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 to fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a bus.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“Where is my pain?”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“He mentioned a dear friend Morrie had, Maurie Stein, who had first sent Morrie's aphorisms to the Boston Globe. They had been together at Brandeis since the early sixties. Now Stein was going deaf. Koppel imagined the two men together one day, one unable to speak, the other unable to hear. What would that be like?
"We will hold hands," Morrie said. "And there'll be a lot of love passing between us. Ted, we've had thirty-five years of friendship. You don't need speech or hearing to feel that.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Morrie likes the nickname.
"Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“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. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?
"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
"You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.
"It is why we are drawn to babies . . ." He turned to the mourners. "And to funerals.”
Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“I’ve learned this much about marriage,” he said now. “You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don’t.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less.
"Why?" she whispered. "Why are you here?"
"The winds blew," he said.”
Source: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“Eddie turned away.
"Because I saved you, as tough as those years were for you, as bad as it was with your hand, you got to grow up, too. And because you got to grow up..."
When he turned back, Annie froze. Eddie was holding a baby boy, with a small blue cap on his head.
"Laurence?" Annie whispered.
Eddie stepped forward and placed her son in her trembling arms. Instantly, Annie was whole again, her body complete. She cradled the infant against her chest, a motherly cradle that filled her with the purest feeling. She smiled and wept and she could not stop weeping.
"My baby," she gushed. "Oh, my baby, my baby...”
Source: The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.”
