Tuesdays With Morrie Mitch Quotes & Sayings

How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day. — Morrie Schwartz.

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. — Mitch Albom

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken. — Scott McClanahan

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller. — John Burnham Schwartz

In the off-season you like to take a little time for yourself, but I'd like to say that people say I live in the weight room and that I had the keys to it. That's just the type of character I am. — Justin Cole

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another — Morrie Schwartz.

His only thought now was the question in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and consequently, with most justice, shake off the mud with which she had splattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honourable, and useful existence. — Leo Tolstoy

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said. Love is the only rational act. — Morrie Schwartz.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. — Samuel Johnson

We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about. — Terry Pratchett

Trying to will yourself bigger boobs? — Tera Lynn Childs

Tears are okay

[Morrie Schwartz] — Mitch Albom

Tell me,
Do you feel the way I feel?
'Cause nothing else is real
In the La La Land machine — Demi Lovato

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. — David Hockney

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen, - By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke, - — William Shakespeare

Build a little community of those you love and who love you — Morrie Schwartz.

The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.
A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. — Morrie Schwartz.

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? — Mitch Albom

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? — Mitch Albom

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted. — Wilson Mizner

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it ... So we kid ourselves about death ... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time ... Do what the Buddhists do ... ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be? — Mitch Albom

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives. — Morrie Schwartz.