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“It’s not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch,” he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves.”
Ourselves?
“Yes. 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. That doesn’t help you when you get to where I am.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Ourselves?
“Yes. 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. That doesn’t help you when you get to where I am.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Can you breathe okay with my head on your chest like this?" His answer was "It's the only way I know how to breathe.”
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“It’s natural to die,” he said again. “The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.”
He smiled at the plant.
“We’re not. Everything that gets born, dies.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
He smiled at the plant.
“We’re not. Everything that gets born, dies.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you’re looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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