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Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning."
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death-and-dying
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Mitch Albom |
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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do
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inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz"
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Mitch Albom |
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Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
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Mitch Albom |
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
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mortality
life
inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether s..
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Mitch Albom |
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.
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bottle
life
days
remorse
running
drunk
remember
forget
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Mitch Albom |
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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
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Mitch Albom |
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There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest sports car, you don't need the biggest house. The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?...Offering others what you have to give...I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your ..
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Mitch Albom |
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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Mitch Albom |
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You had many more years," he said. "I didn't want them." "But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future." "What's that?" "Hope."
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Mitch Albom |
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He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart."
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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Mitch Albom |
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She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.
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suicide
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Mitch Albom |
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'.
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family
life
love
truth
concern
support
fact
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Mitch Albom |
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
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Mitch Albom |
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
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Mitch Albom |
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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. " Sounds like a wrestling match, I say. "A wrestling match." He laughs. "Yes, you could ..
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tuesdays-with-morrie
mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?
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Mitch Albom |
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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Mitch Albom |
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Love is the only rational act.
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rationalism
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Mitch Albom |
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Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
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inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.
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Mitch Albom |
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Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
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Mitch Albom |
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
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Mitch Albom |
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A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. "Mom,guess what ?" she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. "what"? she said ,tending to the pots. "guess what?" the child repeated ,waving the drawings. "what?" the mother said , tending to the plates. "Mom, you're not listening" "sweetie,yes I am" "Mom" the child said "you're not l..
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Mitch Albom |
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You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can't trade them in. You can't lie to them. You can't run two at once, substituting back and forth. "Sticking with your family is what makes it a family."
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Mitch Albom |
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Embrace aging.
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aphorisms
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Mitch Albom |
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It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at 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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learning
life
growth
ignorance
dying
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Mitch Albom |
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Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.
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Mitch Albom |
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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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Mitch Albom |
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Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.
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tuesdays-with-morrie
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Mitch Albom |
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The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.
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Mitch Albom |
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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
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Mitch Albom |
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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
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Mitch Albom |
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Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.
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Mitch Albom |
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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mitch-albom
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Mitch Albom |
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There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.
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Mitch Albom |
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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Mitch Albom |
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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
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Mitch Albom |
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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Mitch Albom |
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Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
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life
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Mitch Albom |
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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.
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loving-relationship
universe
satisfaction
life
truth
materialism
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Mitch Albom |
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fb32d71
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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 |