Tuesdays With Morrie

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hang on too long.”

you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it. Create your own.

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.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“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.”

Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.

no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poo

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”