Quotations (16)

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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
Too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe that it's all an accident.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. i can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how…
Love each other or perish.
Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.
I studied him in his chair, unable to stand, to walk, to pull on his own pants. Lucky? Did he really say lucky?
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life.
"ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax."
"Love each other or die."
“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…
“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Perhaps this is one reason I was drawn to Morrie. He let me be where my brother would not. Looking back, perhaps Morrie knew this all along.
"How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity!" (P. 57) "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it" (p. 42).
"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow."