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  1. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.
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  2. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    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. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, ,all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. you know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right, I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.
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  3. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent." - Morrie
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  4. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    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 is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-and have it repeated to us-over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is to fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
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  5. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …
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  6. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    The word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless
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  7. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    You closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too-even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.
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  8. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks. "Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
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  9. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.
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  10. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
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  11. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds.
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  12. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Love each other or die.
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