It's been quite sometime since the last time I read Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, but it's one of very few novels that I've ever read more than once, and also one of the few that I actually feels carries meaning and is worth the time put in (after all, I gave up a good 2-3 hours of my weekend to read it this time around). Aside from the scriptures, this is one of the few books I've read that makes me want to be a better person and really go out and live life to the fullest while I still have the opportunity. It makes me stop and think about what is most important to me and question if I am spending my time in the best way I can. So, while I'm not gonna spoil the book, I just wanted to share a few of my favorite quotes from it and would encourage anyone to read it if you haven't already (I've read it several times). Anywho...here are some of my favorite quotes in the book that are almost all thoughts I have had with recent events that have taken place in my life that I thought I'd share...enjoy!
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"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."
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"Love wins. Love always wins."
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"So many people walk around in 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."
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"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life."
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"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel."
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
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"Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."
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"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live"
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"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."
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"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow."
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"You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now."
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"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship."
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"There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike."
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"We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become."
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"Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you."
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"'In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need other to survive, right? And at the end of life, when get like me, you need others to survive, right?'
"His voice dropped to a whisper. 'But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own."
