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The world-"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it in." pg.52
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, careers, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiatoor when it breaks-we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going, so we dont get into habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?" pg.64-65
Family-"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. It's become quite clear to me as I've been sick. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, Love each other or perish.'" pg. 91
Death-"Everyone knows there gonna die, but nobody believes it, if we did we would do things differently." pg. 81
Emotions-"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 you can say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. Ireconize that emotion. Now i need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'" pg.104
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." pg.116
Tuesday's with Morrie
Money-"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 much of them you can have." pg.125
Marrige-"In this culture, it's so important to find a loving realationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they're too selfish to take part in a real loving realationship, or they rush into marriage, and then six months later, they get divorced. They don't know what they want in a partner. They don't know who they are themselves-so how can they know who they're marrying?" pg.148
culture-"The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own." pg.156
Forgiveness-"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others." pg.164
