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Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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
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
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
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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
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
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.
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
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
From The Time Keeper
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
From For One More Day
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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
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
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
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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
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
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.
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
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
From The Time Keeper
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
From For One More Day
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Death ends a life, but not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
From The Time Keeper
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
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
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
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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
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
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.
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
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.
From Have a Little Faith: a True Story
I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
From The Time Keeper
You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.
From Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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.
From Tuesdays With Morrie
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
From The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.
The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
From For One More Day
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