Annie:3’s Reviews > Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson > Status Update

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever 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.”

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” His voice dropped to a whisper. “Let it come in. 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.’”

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. “So which side wins”
“Love wins. Love always wins.”

“Accept what you are able to
do and what you are not able to do”; “Accept the past as past, without denying it or
discarding it”; “Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others”; “Don’t assume that it’s
too late to get involved.””
Loved it.