What are morries best quotes?
“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.” “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” “Accept who you are; and revel in it.” “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
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 have touched and nurtured while you were here.
- “We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. ...
- “The truth is . . . ...
- “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ...
- “Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.” ...
- “Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.” ...
- “We are so afraid of the sight of death . . .
In reply, Morrie explains his theory on the "tension of opposites," meaning that life pulls alternately back and forth, like a wrestling match. Love, he says, always wins.
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.
In his first of three interviews with Koppel for "Nightline," Morrie admits that the thing he dreads most about his worsening condition is that someday, he will not be able to wipe himself after using the bathroom.
Morrie replies, very simply, that he would do what he would have done on any average day, such as eat lunch with friends and go for an evening walk. Mitch is surprised at first, and then realizes that Morrie is trying to exemplify that there is perfection in the average day.
His professor's body is so tiny in the bed that he barely looks like he's there. Morrie calls Mitch his "good friend" and holds out his hand, very weakly, to be held. He says goodbye, telling Mitch very slowly and faintly that he loves him. Morrie cries like a small child and Mitch hugs him tight for several minutes.
Morrie stresses that is is vital to forgive oneself, just as it is vital to forgive others. Once again, he calls himself "lucky" for having the time to forgive himself and others while he is dying.
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 something that gives you purpose and meaning. Morrie said these words to Mitch on their first meeting after sixteen years, and he repeats them again later.
What is the quote about Morrie dancing?
He enjoys dancing, so he dances. If others judge him to be weird, he does not care.
Throughout his fourteen Tuesday lessons with Mitch, Morrie divulges that love is the essence of every person, and every relationship, and that to live without it, as Auden says, is to live with nothing.
“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.” “The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” “Accept who you are; and revel in it.” “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and how to let it come in. We think we don't deserve love. We think, if we let it in, we'll become too weak.
Recall 4 items on Mitch's list of topics to ask Morrie. Death, Fear, Aging and greed.
