In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?
He didn't understand depression. To him it was weakness.
Embrace aging.
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things includ...
People in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.
You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.
When hope is gone, time is punishment.
What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning tings...
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't k...
This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.
The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.Or who isn't.
That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Whic...
So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not asubstitute for tenderness.
Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.
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 natu...
If you find one true friend in life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed.
If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are
I don’t want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what’s happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go