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Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?" "You bet," Morrie whispered."
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Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself." --W. H. AUDEN,"
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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mitch-albom
inspirational
growth
aging
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All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.
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I figure it's like in the Bible, the Adam and Eve deal?" the Captain said. "Adam's first night on earth? When he lays down to sleep? He thinks it's all over, right? He doesn't know what sleep is. His eyes are closing and he thinks he's leaving this world, right? "Only he isn't. He wakes up the next morning and he has a fresh new world to work with, but he has something else, too. He has his yesterday." The Captain grinned. "The way I see it..
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Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's symphony ends. And so, at last, we rest.
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Love her or some other guy will. Love like there is no tomorrow, cause there may not be. Never take what/who you have for granted cause it will end up turning into something you had. Do what it takes to keep her happy at any cost to you're pride. Treat her like she is you're queen & She will make you feel like a king. Love lost is more painful than an unhappy marriage.
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The only whole heart is a broken heart.
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But daughters have their own lives. You can't smother them. She'll get married. Have children.
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I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled. My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?" "You know. Someone you forget." From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten."
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significance
ordinary-people
seeking
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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.
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ill
live
life
others
envy
quality
drama
dying
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If you believe it, you don't need proof.
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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."
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marriage
heaven
death
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Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?" -Morrie"
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stay-positive
stay-strong
motivational
motivational-quotes
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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.
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There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live ...
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Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth?" Cleo asked. "People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame." She looked to the sky, now a deep shade of purple. "We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. it is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depar..
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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 i..
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marriage
karma
spirit
death
life
love
connected
cycle
we-are-one
birth
funeral
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If the only thing wrong with mosques, Lent, chanting, ?Mecca, confession, or reincarnation is that they're not yours- well maybe the problem is "YOU"
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mitch-albom
religion
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Love is not revenge. It can't be thrown like a rock. And you can't create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.
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No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.
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Mitch Albom |
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When we build, we build on the shoulders of those who came before us. And when we fall apart, those who came before us help put us back together.
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together
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I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.
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His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless
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Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.
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Mitch Albom |
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There was a sermon where he brought a squash and a piece of wood, then slammed each with a knife to show that things which grow quickly are often more easily destroyed than those which take a long time.
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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."
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whisper their good-byes.
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The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.
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Fairness does not govern life and death.
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He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act."
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repeat
love
pause
only
rational
wise
effect
careful
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ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.
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Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I'm getting. Not everyone is as lucky." I"
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Eddie looked again at the graveside gathering. He wondered if he'd had a funeral. He wondered if anyone came. He saw the priest reading from the bible and the mourners lowering their heads. This was the day the Blue Man had been buried, all those years ago. Eddie had been there, a little boy, fidgeting through the ceremony, with no idea of the role he'd played in it. "I still don't understand," Eddie whispered. "What good came from your dea..
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Do you really think we'll meet again one day? "Don't you?" --
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Dear friends. I'm dying. "Don't be upset. I began to die on July 6, 1917. That's the day I was born, and, in council with what our psalmist says, 'We who are born, are born to die."
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The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."
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life
mountain
mountains
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I am not one of the "slower" talents, like Reason or Mathematics. I am Music. If I bless you singing, you can do so from your first attempt."
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By the way, Reb, about the singing. What gives? Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Billie Holiday sang the blues. You sang...everything. You could sing the phone book. I would call and say how are you feeling, and you'd answer, "The old gray rabbi, ain't what he used to be..."
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Mitch Albom |
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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Mitch Albom |
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These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
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Mitch Albom |
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I needed help. Why didn't you help me? . . . God . . . forgives me. Why didn't you?
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This is what it said: "In heaven, we can see you. . . . We can feel you. . . . We know your pain, your tears, but we feel no pain or tears ourselves. . . . There are no bodies here . . . there is no age. . . . The old who come . . . are no different than the children. . . . No one feels alone. . . . No one is greater or smaller. . . . We are all in the light . . . the light is grace . . . and we are part of . . . the one great thing."
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As long as we can love eachother, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still here. All the memories are still there. You live on--in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were hear... Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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