Tuesdays With Morrie Quotes

“I don't know why you came back to me. But I want to say this..." He paused, and his voice choked. "If I could have had another son, I would have liked it to be you." I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All I was afraid of was saying good-bye.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“What we take, we must replenish.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“I believe in being fully present,” Morrie said. “That means you should be with the person you’re with. When I’m talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what’s coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about medications I’m taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. It’s become quite clear to me as I’ve been sick. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, Love each other or parish.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems—the way they had always shared their problems, because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives purpose and meaning”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“I'm bargaining with Him up there now. I'm asking Him, 'Do I get to be one of the angels?'" It was the first time Morrie admitted talking to God.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Öleceğinin bilincine vardığında, her şeyi çok farklı bir gözle görüyorsun.
Ölmeyi öğren, nasıl yaşayacağını öğrenirsin.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Do you ever hear my voice sometimes when you're back home? When you're all alone? Maybe on the plane? Maybe in your car?"

Yes, I admitted.

"Then you will not forget me after I'm gone. Think of my voice and I'll be there.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear. I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Living is giving”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
It captures emotional reciprocity as strength — perfect for your argument.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Why is it so hard to think about dying?
"Because," Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“How can you ever be prepared to die?
"Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks -we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I wanted? Is something missing?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Learn to detach."
"-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."
"Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. 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. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability loving entails."
"But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right, I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.' "
"Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“People see me as a bridge. I’m not as alive as I used to be, but I’m not yet dead. I’m sort of … in between.”
“I’m on the last great journey here—and people want me to tell them what to pack.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“People see me as a bridge. I’m not quite alive as I used to be, but I’m not yet d we. I’m sort of … in between.”
“I’m on the last great journey here—and people want me to tell them what to pack.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Here's what I mean by building your own little sub-culture," Morrie said. "I don't mean you disregard very 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.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“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.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“…when he smiles it’s as if you’d just told him the first joke on earth.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Morrie continued, "most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes all that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all the stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.
He sighed. "Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“As for Morrie? Well, I thought about him now and then, the things he had thought me about "being human" and relating to others”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“We all have the same beginning-birth and we all have the same end-death. So how different can we be?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“You know what reflects us? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty five. "Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“The most thing important in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Still, what I miss most, simple and maybe selfish as it sounds, is the twinkle in Morrie’s eyes when I came in the room. But when someone is happy — genuinely happy — to see you, it melts you from the start. It is like going home”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie