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  1. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless. I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple.. counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally.
    book-quotelovelifeill

  2. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college.
    book-quotelifedyingpast

  3. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
    book-quotelovelifedeath

  4. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    For a while, we just ate like that, a sick old man, a healthy, younger man, both absorbing the quiet of the room. I would say it was an embarrassed silence, but I seemed to be the only one embarrassed.
    book-quotesilenceillold

  5. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    I watched him now, his hands working gingerly, as if he were learning to use them for the first time. He could not press down hard with a knife. His fingers shook. Each bite was a struggle; he chewed the food finely before swallowing.. The skin from his wrist to his knuckles was dotted with age spots, and it was loose, like skin hanging from a chicken soup bone.
    book-quoteilldescribeold

  6. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis {ALS}, Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There was no known cure.
    book-quoteillterminalnerves

  7. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.
    book-quoteillperspectiveembarrass

  8. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.
    book-quotelifedeathfriend

  9. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.
    book-quotesoulilldisease

  10. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.
    book-quotedeathtimeremember

  11. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside his shrivelling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillows, I had the coldest realisation that our time was running out.
    book-quotedeathtimedying

  12. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.
    book-quotetimeillthoughts
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