Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

“Do not stop your lives,” he told them. “Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one.”

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot—how could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.