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This is my all-time favorite book. I've read it 4 times and each time it gets better. It really changed me and how I view/deal with life. I would have read it a lot more times except for the fact that it has been "checked out" for a while now. It's now my mission to tell everyone I know about this book and great person: Morrie Schwartz. I want everyone I know to read the book.
So, now I'm telling you: read it. There, that wasn't so bad was it?
How did the book touch you?
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MarisaAngelisArtDesigns wrote...
Great book!
Good to see it being recommended in Squidoo!
Best wishes
Marisa Angelis
Artist Designer Writer Poet Philanthropist Humanitarian Promoter
Four Nominations including "Australian of the Year 2003" Short List
Posted March 14, 2009
joan wrote
i love his book titled five people you meet in heaven... very inspiring... who can lend me a copy of uesdays with morrie.. iv been longing to read this book.. anyone???
Posted March 03, 2009
synajib83 wrote...
Don't forget to read his new book, For One More Day and also 7 person you meet in heaven. It's masterpiece
Posted January 15, 2009
InsomSkitz wrote
i have never been afraid of death. with so many near death experiences. I have always been in love with the idea of love. This book just expressed exactly how i feel and have been feeling for the last 5 years. Im 20 and im glad i finally had enough money to buy the book! Im spreading it to everyone. Im rereading i want to absorb his words and the meaning. :)
Posted December 13, 2008
Taylor_E wrote
This book was incredible.
The way Morrie talked about how much he loved life, and how he is not afraid to perish really touched me.
This book gave a new meaning to life.................
Posted November 30, 2008
qlcoach wrote...
Good job promoting Tuesday With Morrie. Thanks for sharing this lens. Thanks for participating in our Book Readers Club too. Sincerely: Gary Eby, author and therapist
Posted September 15, 2008
shelly wrote
this book was really good is had really good quotes
Posted August 06, 2008
Devon Patel wrote
hey this book is really good i liked it a-lot
it was really meaning full and it teaches you
that your never to late to talk to your friends from along time....
these it the best book every
Posted June 14, 2008
Solar-Powered wrote...
I have to whole heartedly agree. This was such a profound touching book - I could not put it down
Posted June 10, 2008
cindy wrote
..this is one of the books i've read that really gave a big impact to my life..so full of learnings
Posted February 06, 2008
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An excerpt from the book
No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor's head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit.
No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. The last lecture was brief, only a few words.
A funeral was held in lieu of graduation.
Although no final exam was given, you were expected to produce one long paper on what was learned. That paper is presented here.
The last class of my old professor's life had only one student.
I was the student.
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What I have done with my book
I just wanted to share with you what I have been doing with my book. Everytime I lend it out, which is a lot, I tell the person that they have to sign the inside of the book. Not only that but I encourage them to also write down thier favorite quote from the book. It's great to go back and read what people have wrote. Just an idea I thought I would share with you.Poll #2
Some of my favorite quotes from the book
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"Accept what you're able to do and what you're 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 is too late to get involved." -p18
"Well for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me - even in my current condition. O may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?" -pg 40
"Love. Love always wins" -pg 40
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to the community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." -pg 43
"The most important thing in life is to give out love, and to let it come in." -pg 52
"Love is the only rational act" - 52
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." -pg 82
"There is no experience like having children. That's all. There is no substitute for it." -pg 93
"Detach yourself. Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent." - pg 103
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More of my favorite quotes
"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.'" -pg 103-104
"You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life right now" -pg 120
"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship." -pg 125
"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." -pg 128
"Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long." -pg 162
"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others." -pg 164
"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there.All the memories are still there. You live on - in the hearts of everyone you touched and nurtured while you were here." -pg 174
"Love is when you are concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own." -pg 178
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Cool links about the book
- Who Is Morrie Schwartz?
- Find out a little bit more about the man that the book is all about.
- Mitch Albom's Official Site
- Read an excerpt from the book and learn a little more about the author.
- Mitch Albom Lens
- Another site about the author.
- Wikipedia's entry
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- IMDB's information on the T.V. movie
- A Review of the Book
- "A review of Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
This true story gives the reader inspiration to remain optimistic about life, through the example of a great man.
Reviewed by: Lynne Quido"
The Most Important Thing
Give. Care. Love.
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