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17aa861	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." Why? "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than..		Mitch Albom
0ea5d54	I'm too ugly to be a narcissist.	ted-koppel	Mitch Albom
cffab5c	I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck		Mitch Albom
f3f43a2	Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months."	ill live good life months dying	Mitch Albom
0593c1c	Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says. "The tension of opposites? "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." ..		Mitch Albom
a07d672	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."	bye wilt ill time nothing lucky horrible slow dying	Mitch Albom
6bce4ea	In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. I		Mitch Albom
73891eb	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." He shot me a look. "Not work," he added."		Mitch Albom
6a8ad5a	I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.	live work life important culture	Mitch Albom
7b9520f	His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.	describe ill death face look smile	Mitch Albom
1db46c0	He found himself thinking about his childhood. "Why do you drink so much, Maestro?" "This is not a music question." "Are you sad, Maestro?" "Again, not a music question." "I am sad sometimes, Maestro." "Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier." "Yes, Maestro." Everyone joins a band in this life. Sometimes, they are the wrong ones."	friends brotherhood community choices	Mitch Albom
4710dbd	He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. "You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do."	illness dying	Mitch Albom
c0b2d17	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."	friendship life nickname student old young	Mitch Albom
163cf7e	Everyone knows they're going to die," he said again, "but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently." So we kid ourselves about death, I said. "Yes. But there's a better approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living." How can you ever be prepared to die? "Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a l..		Mitch Albom
6f4a462	Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.	success love hard-work	Mitch Albom
d3d2219	The greatest thing, you'll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return.		Mitch Albom
d54bdd0	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?	life wasted-time	Mitch Albom
13a3e3e	I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.	journey-of-life dying	Mitch Albom
49fcc37	And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.	ill passion death life hands wait decision way-of-life	Mitch Albom
2ae41b3	when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.		Mitch Albom
faff9ee	That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living."	living peace	Mitch Albom
4690ce1	Heaven is always thinking about us.		Mitch Albom
14ff91d	She was broken open. But broken open is still open.		Mitch Albom
7b45258	Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.		Mitch Albom
8734c4e	There is life after this life.		Mitch Albom
90970e3	The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."		Mitch Albom
e0fd8d4	There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.	inspiration music musicians piano	Mitch Albom
2d15492	Heaven...is the same feeling...No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved...that's the light.		Mitch Albom
f7f8755	Holding onto things will only break your heart		Mitch Albom
3461978	What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.	love	Mitch Albom
81781e3	The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.		Mitch Albom
20e1175	Why didn't I feel this before?" she whispered. "Because we embrace our scars more than our healing," Lorraine said. "We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?"		Mitch Albom
919b10c	And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God's happy.		Mitch Albom
3c4dcf5	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.	love mother memory	Mitch Albom
9c5c5a7	So many people are in pain--no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.		Mitch Albom
04497b5	But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.	pain self-awareness love	Mitch Albom
c4af3c8	It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.	heaven life ordinary	Mitch Albom
c729a1b	But the world does not cater to our timing.		Mitch Albom
ae0f1a3	This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.	need	Mitch Albom
19a3e4d	All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.		Mitch Albom
b0a0029	Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.		Mitch Albom
54a4919	Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be "fully human." He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me."	ramble money youth human life connect society talk lesson	Mitch Albom
1d83de7	He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn't understand why both parties didn't simply communicate with each other and solve their problems. I told him not everyone was as smart as he was.	negotiate solve problem smart strike parties	Mitch Albom
983b6ca	I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.	writer work life journalism fame job	Mitch Albom

17aa861

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." Why? "Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than..

Mitch Albom

0ea5d54

I'm too ugly to be a narcissist.

ted-koppel

Mitch Albom

cffab5c

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck

Mitch Albom

f3f43a2

Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months."

ill live good life months dying

Mitch Albom

0593c1c

Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says. "The tension of opposites? "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. "A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." ..

Mitch Albom

a07d672

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."

bye wilt ill time nothing lucky horrible slow dying

Mitch Albom

6bce4ea

In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. I

Mitch Albom

73891eb

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." He shot me a look. "Not work," he added."

Mitch Albom

6a8ad5a

I had also developed my own culture. Work. Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion and had moved everything else to the side.

live work life important culture

Mitch Albom

7b9520f

His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.

describe ill death face look smile

Mitch Albom

1db46c0

He found himself thinking about his childhood. "Why do you drink so much, Maestro?" "This is not a music question." "Are you sad, Maestro?" "Again, not a music question." "I am sad sometimes, Maestro." "Practice more. Speak less. You'll be happier." "Yes, Maestro." Everyone joins a band in this life. Sometimes, they are the wrong ones."

friends brotherhood community choices

Mitch Albom

4710dbd

He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. "You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do."

illness dying

Mitch Albom

c0b2d17

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."

friendship life nickname student old young

Mitch Albom

163cf7e

Everyone knows they're going to die," he said again, "but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently." So we kid ourselves about death, I said. "Yes. But there's a better approach. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living." How can you ever be prepared to die? "Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a l..

Mitch Albom

6f4a462

Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

success love hard-work

Mitch Albom

d3d2219

The greatest thing, you'll ever learn Is just to love, and be loved in return.

Mitch Albom

d54bdd0

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?

life wasted-time

Mitch Albom

13a3e3e

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.

journey-of-life dying

Mitch Albom

49fcc37

And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

ill passion death life hands wait decision way-of-life

Mitch Albom

2ae41b3

when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.

Mitch Albom

faff9ee

That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living."

living peace

Mitch Albom

4690ce1

Heaven is always thinking about us.

Mitch Albom

14ff91d

She was broken open. But broken open is still open.

Mitch Albom

7b45258

Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it. These are common expressions that hold varying truths of love.

Mitch Albom

8734c4e

There is life after this life.

Mitch Albom

90970e3

The Blue Man held out his hand. "Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young."

Mitch Albom

e0fd8d4

There are songs that you play that you have to restart, and songs that you play that you never get right. But when a song is complete, there is no more you can do.

inspiration music musicians piano

Mitch Albom

2d15492

Heaven...is the same feeling...No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved...that's the light.

Mitch Albom

f7f8755

Holding onto things will only break your heart

Mitch Albom

3461978

What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.

love

Mitch Albom

81781e3

The end of loneliness is when someone needs you. And the world is so full of need.

Mitch Albom

20e1175

Why didn't I feel this before?" she whispered. "Because we embrace our scars more than our healing," Lorraine said. "We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?"

Mitch Albom

919b10c

And maybe people who only get chances to do bad, always around bad things, like us, when they finally make something good out of it, God's happy.

Mitch Albom

3c4dcf5

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.

love mother memory

Mitch Albom

9c5c5a7

So many people are in pain--no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

Mitch Albom

04497b5

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.

pain self-awareness love

Mitch Albom

c4af3c8

It's never hard to act ordinary if you feel ordinary.

heaven life ordinary

Mitch Albom

c729a1b

But the world does not cater to our timing.

Mitch Albom

ae0f1a3

This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.

need

Mitch Albom

19a3e4d

All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you.

Mitch Albom

b0a0029

Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.

Mitch Albom

54a4919

Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be "fully human." He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me."

ramble money youth human life connect society talk lesson

Mitch Albom

1d83de7

He asked about the newspaper strike, and true to form, he couldn't understand why both parties didn't simply communicate with each other and solve their problems. I told him not everyone was as smart as he was.

negotiate solve problem smart strike parties

Mitch Albom

983b6ca

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

writer work life journalism fame job

Mitch Albom