Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Did I lose you?Never.
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 w...
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I read? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be?' He turned his head t...
Do you believe in reincarnation? I ask.Perhaps.What would you come back as?If I had my chance, a gazelle.A gazelle?Yes, so graceful. So fast.A gazelle?Morrie smiled at me. You think that's strange?I s...
Do you know what causes wind? High pressure meeting low pressure. Warm meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind. and the bigger the change, the stronger the wind blows.
Dor came from a time before the written word, a timewhen if you wished to speak with someone, you walked to see them. This time was different. The tools ofthis era—phones, computers—enabled people to...
Dying is one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.'‘For one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We’re teaching the wrong things. And you hav...
Dying, Morris 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.Why?Well, for one thing, the culture we...
EVERYONE JOINS A BAND IN THIS LIFE. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool u...
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment—to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began—Morrie stopped...
For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. This
Giving makes me feel like I’m living.
God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.
Have I told you about the tension of opposites? he says. The tension of opposites?Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something...
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass. Me,
He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.
He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.
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