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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --HENRY ADAMS"
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Mitch Albom |
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We are, as we die, who we most were in life...
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First loves often remain in the heart, like plants that cannot grow in sunlight.
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Mitch Albom |
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Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things 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 so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymor..
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property
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Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
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children
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Time passed. Like flakes shaken in a snow globe, the lives of those involved in the tragedy settled slowly to the ground, not in the same spots but in new pockets of peace.
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In the South American rainforest, there is a tribe called the Desana, who see the world as a fixed quantity of energy that flows between all creatures. Every birth must therefore engender a death, and every death brings forth another birth. This way, the energy of the world remains complete. When they hunt for food, the Desana know the animals they kill will leave a hole in the spiritual well. But that hole will be filled, they believe, by ..
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inspiration
life-lessons
life
truths
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Life has to end," she said. "Love doesn't."
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heven
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In the water's reflection she saw only loving scenes from her childhood, countless memories, her mother kissing her good night, unwrapping a new toy, plopping whipped cream onto pancakes, putting Annie on her first bicycle, stitching a ripped dress, sharing a tube of lipstick, pushing a button to Annie's favorite radio station. It was as if someone unlocked a vault and all these fond recollections could be examined at once. Why didn't I fee..
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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'.
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m`lm rwy jwdngy thr mygdhrd. m`lm hrgz nmytwnd bgwyd tthyrtsh dr chh nqTh y z Hrkht bz my ystd.
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There is a reason God limits our days." "Why?" "To make each one precious."
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He died at forty-two. I was there to collect his talent. I was there at the hospital deathbed of my beloved Billie Holiday, just forty-four, her liver destroyed by drinking; I was there inside the hotel room of Charlie Parker, my singular jazz saxophonist, who died in his midthirties, but whose body was so ravaged by drugs the coroners thought he was sixty. Tommy Dorsey, the bandleader, choked in his sleep when he was fifty-one, too deep in..
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music
alcohol
art
talent
drugs
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You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days.
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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meaning
life
love
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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 . . ." --
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limit
sorry
self-pity
little
self
tears
dying
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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." He"
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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relationship
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Do not stop your lives. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.
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Once he could read, all knowledge was within reach.
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Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me." -Morrie-"
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When you are measuring life, you are not living it...
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People often ask what I miss about Morrie. I miss that belief in humanity. I miss the eyes that could view life so encouragingly. And I miss his laugh. I really do.
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Small towns have their own heartbeat, no matter how many people come or go.
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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.
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close
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Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.
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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.
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silence
feelings
friends
others
uncomfortable
talk
noise
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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."
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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories that I'm going to hear. On you, if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.
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We're Tuesday people," he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled."
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Mitch Albom |
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Don't lose yourself... inside yourself...
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The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter." The"
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Mitch Albom |
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes. Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. "That's it."
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You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
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Guardar a raiva e envenenar-se. Ela nos consome por dentro. A gente costuma pensar que o odio e uma arma contra a pessoa que nos fez mal. Mas a lamina do odio e curva. E o mal que fazemos com ele, nos fazemos a nos mesmos.
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Mitch Albom |
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But a man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
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Mitch Albom |
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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 things 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 so fogge..
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It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature." He smiled at the plant. "We're not. Everything that gets born, dies."
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I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either."
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Mitch Albom |
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Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.
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Mitch Albom |
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But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.
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Mitch Albom |
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He listened as if you were the person in the world.
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Mitch Albom |
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A man without memories is just a shell.
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Mitch Albom |
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Because there was a ghost involved, you may call this a ghost story. But what family isn't a ghost story? Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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