Everyone should read this book, Tuesdays with Morrie!!! A dear friend of mine from NY sent this book to me years ago. It was such a beautiful book, and I plan to read it again and again! jenn
Quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie:
"I'm on the last great journey here- and people want me to tell them what to pack." -pg.33
"Love wins. Love always wins." -pg.40
"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." -pg.43
"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another." -pg.51
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." -pg.52
"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." -pg.61
"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently." -pg.81
"Without love, we are birds with broken wings." -pg.92
"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." -pg.92
"You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward." -pg.118
"You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue." -pg.120
"We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives." -pg.123-124
"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone." -pg.127-128
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone." -pg.133
"Marriage. Almost everyone I knew had a problem with it. Some had problems getting into it, some had problems getting out." -pg.147
"We're number one!" "What's wrong with being number two??" -pg.159
"This disease is knocking at my spirit. But it will not get my spirit. It'll get my body. It will not get my spirit." -pg.163
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
