I've Been Trying to Get Down, to the Heart of the Matter.
"Love is the Only Rational Act"
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It is supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices...sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
-The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
"Here's what I mean by building your own subculture...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 for yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"Learn to detach...Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate 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 that love 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."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. 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."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"This symbolizes the idea that in order to develop the deepest relationships we must sometimes ignore our contemplative side and simply develop a blind trust."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"Morrie explains that society does not make us focus on such things until we are about to die: people are so heavily involved in the mundane clutter of their daily routines that they never take the time to step back and examine whether what we are doing makes us truly happy or if there are other more meaningful endeavors we should instead pursue."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"People very seldom live as if they believe they will die - if they did, their priorities would be completely different, including Mitch, who Morrie says would be “less ambitious.” When Morrie says that Mitch would be “less ambitious” if he appreciated the finality of death, he is implying something much deeper. He is addressing the imbalance in Mitch’s life between work and loving relationships. He goes on to say we are too involved in material things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"Ironically, although we all think we will be satisfied by acquiring more, the way to truly satisfy ourselves is to give out what we have: not only money, but time, love, and companionship as well."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too - Even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
-Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom