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Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS.

“For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.”

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“There is no formula to relationships.”

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“It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.”

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“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.”

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“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

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“I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

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“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

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“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

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Variant: We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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“Love is the only rational act.”

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“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

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“We all know how to be a child.”

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“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here… Death ends life, not a relationship.”

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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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Variant: 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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“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.”

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“I like myself better when I'm with you.”

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“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

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