Tuesday with Morrie - Mitch Albom

The First Tuesday - We Talk About the World

“Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let’s face it. I can’t go shopping. I can’t take care of the bank accounts, I can’t take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.”

The Second Tuesday - We Talk About Feeling Sorry for Yourself

- “Mitch, I don’t allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that’s all.”

- “It’s only horrible if you see it that way. It’s horrible to watch my body slowly wilt away to nothing. But it’s also wonderful because of all the time I get to say good-bye.”

The Third Tuesday - We Talk About Regrets

“the culture doesn’t encourage you to think about such things until you’re about to die. We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”

The Forth Tuesday - We Talk About Death

- “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
- “The things you spend so much time on - all this work you do - might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.”

The Fifth Tuesday - We Talk About Family

“Love each other or perish”

The Sixth Tuesday - We Talk About Emotions

- “…….. Learn to detach”
- “But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.”

The Seventh Tuesday - We Talk About the Fear of Aging

“The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads - none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn’t get enough.”

The Eighth Tuesday - We Talk About Money

- “These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. THey were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.”
- “The truth is, you don’t get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?”
- “Offering others what you have to give.”