Morrie Quotes

• We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Wise, Tuesdays With Morrie, Love Is

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Commitment, Tuesdays With Morrie

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

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• I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.155, Broadway Books

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• there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Love And Marriage, Goes On, Common

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• 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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Hurt, Tuesdays With Morrie, Opposites

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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.

  Mitch Albom

  Travel, Mean, Tuesdays With Morrie

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.103, Broadway Books

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• I like myself better when I'm with you.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Standing Tall, He Makes Me Feel

  Jeffrey Hatcher, Mitch Albom (2008). “Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

  Morrie Schwartz

  Tuesdays With Morrie, Tears, Stranger

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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

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Pride, Vanity

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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 concern. Your storytelling. It's not so hard.

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Country, Mean

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own. But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be? Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you. Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Believe, Men

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• Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

  Mitch Albom

  Responsibility, Would Be, World

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• ...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on 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.

  Mitch Albom

  Heart, Tuesdays With Morrie, People

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.127, Broadway Books

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• Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Tuesdays With Morrie, Jewels

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.192, Broadway Books

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• My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fall, Writing, Tuesdays With Morrie

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Tears are okay [Morrie Schwartz]

  Mitch Albom

  Tears, Okay

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• Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Reading, Character, Memorable

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