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Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
From For One More Day
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There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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 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’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?”
His voice dropped to a whisper. “But there’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What is false about hope?
From The First Phone Call from Heaven
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
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One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
From For One More Day
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There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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 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’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?”
His voice dropped to a whisper. “But there’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What is false about hope?
From The First Phone Call from Heaven
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
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One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
From For One More Day
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There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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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 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’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?”
His voice dropped to a whisper. “But there’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What is false about hope?
From The First Phone Call from Heaven
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.
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One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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