Tuesdays with Morrie

"If you hold back on the emotions, if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them, you get stuck."

"We have a spiritual need that's not being filled, and we throw money at it."

"I'm concentrating on living. And that's what I advise you to do."

"When you go to work, you are saying your life is more important than the life around you."

"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of not doing what I've come here to do."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving another person."

"Did you love? Did you find some people to love and who loved you back? Did you make a decent living where you weren't struggling day to day?"

"I have all the money I need in the heaven and my money in my heart."

"We live in a world where we are happy in spite of our circumstances, not because of them."

"You know what? Maybe it's not just time. Maybe it's also character. Without character, time is meaningless."

"So it's not just other people I have accepted. I have accepted myself."

"I don't think I miss my youth as much as I miss the idea that I could do anything with my youth."

"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"There is no experience like having cancer."

"You struggle with the universal human problems, one of them being that we are born alone and we die alone."

"The problem is, Mitch, we don't believe we are going to die."

"What is it you're so busy doing that you can't sit down and talk to me?"

"Forgive yourself before you die."

"Don't let yourself get lost in a sea of despair and forget that you still have the possibility of hope."

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

"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They're on the same level as you."

"You know what my old professor said to me? He said, 'Mitch, I'm dying.' Well, I know you are, Professor, we're all dying. But he was different. He was dying consciously."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, they don't matter. We keep asking 'when's this going to end? When am I going to be successful? When is this thing going to happen?'"

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

"When you go to work, you are really saying, 'I don't know what to do with my life.'"

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the answer is? The answer is obvious to me. We need a little green man to come down and say 'You know what? You're all okay.' But that's not going to happen."

"I wanted to go back to where we started. To remember who I was before the world got hold of me."

"There is no formula. The only way to know is to sit with me a while."

"You have to find meaning in what you do. That's what I tell young people."

"I want to die while I'm still living."