Tuesdays with Morrie

"You still have possibilities. You have a chance to succeed where most people fail."

"The little things? There are nothing but little things."

"It's not just that I'm dying. I'm living. I'm really living."

"We live in a world where distractions are plentiful. You have to learn to focus on what really matters."

"You need someone to validate you. Human beings need that."

"When you go back to square one, it is not embarrassing, it is enlightening."

"I give people permission to live."

"The most important investment is in the people around you."

"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"So you think you're in control? But you're not. You have to embrace what you do control."

"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people rest. There is only change."

"There are people who go out there and make things happen. There are people who see things happen. There are people who wonder what happened."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others."

"Accept what you are able to do and the importance of the things you cannot do."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, things that don't at all matter when we're dying."

"You know what my old professor used to say? He said, 'The most important thing is to love one another.'"

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the cure is? The same thing that works for so many things. It's kindness and love."

"The struggle is good. The man in bed is living out part of his dying."

"You know what happens in the end? You die. You don't know when, you don't know how, but you know that will happen."

"I'm going to participate in my own life instead of being a bystander."

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

"All this emphasis on youth - I don't buy it."

"When you're in bed, you're dead anyway. It's a good way to think about it."

"There is no experience like having children. That's the best I can tell you."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, things that don't matter about the dead."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the cure is? The same thing it always has been: it's love, and love is when you expose your true self to somebody else, and they do not run away."

"Did I enjoy my ride on the planet? That's what matters."

"We live in a world that teaches us to hate ourselves."