Mitch Albom quote: "Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...
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People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theat...
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's goi...
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My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a ...
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Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A huma...
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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
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Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...
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You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
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Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, y...
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But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of goin...
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I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toug...
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do...
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prin...
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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring t...
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that
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Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on ea...
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our econ...
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks th...
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when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, ...
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I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
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I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
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I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that an...
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the...
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to yo...
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We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, somethin...
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We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mort...
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...
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You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
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A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. M...
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Secrets tear you apart.
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Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of ...
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It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just ...
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here,...
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another comp...
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It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their ...
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There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have...
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Life has to end. Love doesn't.
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Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
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Every life has one true love snapshot.
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People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, an...
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This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it exp...
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the...
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the st...
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another tha...
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The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to as...
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you ...
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because ...
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In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it cam...
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Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being tak...
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Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them.....
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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth...
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely...
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...
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He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to b...
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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 ca...
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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i ...
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of...
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His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him ...
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Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
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But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
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Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it...
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Life has to end, love doesn't.
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Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attack...
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a p...
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to fee...
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If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. An...
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Mo...
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Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Although the TV and radio work were nice supplements, the newspaper had been my lifeline, my oxygen;...
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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', b...
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But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luck...
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somethin...
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It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the thin...
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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning ...
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We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
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Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirr...
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Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
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Love wins, love always wins.
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We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainw...
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Let it com...
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Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
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Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't le...
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Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separate...
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they fe...
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Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, thats all. You cant see their smile or bring...
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ...
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Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for...
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No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're ...
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No one gets left behind, remember?
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Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
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Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn'...
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of ...
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The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty...
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I...
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There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
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I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themsel...
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People are only mean when they are threatened.
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As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be tw...
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Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned thos...
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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do...
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing...
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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there w...
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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
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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 pers...
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Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teac...
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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Accept who you are; and revel in it.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. W...
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People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself t...
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I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, ...
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I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
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For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet...
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I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time...
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..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he ...
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Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from...
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Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?..
He would not wither. He...
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ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax..
you cannot...
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Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness ...
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That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the en...
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Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and...
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I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"...
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Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the d...
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I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were n...
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When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paraly...
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With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
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I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment s...
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When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
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Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
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Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
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What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
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I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
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I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
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Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
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But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was goi...
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A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,...
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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
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I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
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It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
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Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
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I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
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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 ca...
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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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