Tuesdays with Morrie

"When you're facing death, people listen instead of just waiting for their turn to talk."

"I'm not going to play the victim. I'm not going to say why me?"

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

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

"You can't substitute material goods for human worth."

"It's not just time. It's energy. Energy is time. We use our time to give energy to things."

"Half this country is trying to tell the other half how to live."

"There is no experience like having the people you love around you and telling you that you matter."

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"We all need each other. I always tell people, don't assume."

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

"Don't let go. Don't ever think you're going to be replaced."

"So you think you're going to travel around the world? Forget it. You're going to be so strapped for cash."

"When you go to work, you are really going to be working for other people, on the strength of their company."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong-minded to not buy into it."

"I carry him with me still."

"I listened. I didn't argue. I didn't try to fix things."

"He was giving me a final gift in these lessons."

"There was something different about Morrie now—something peaceful despite everything."

"I felt guilty for my time away, for my absence."

"His pain seemed to lessen when he was teaching."

"Sometimes I wonder how he did it—stay so engaged with life even as his body was shutting down."

"Morrie proved that our culture was wrong about growing old."

"He had taught me something that day, without me even realizing it."

"I realized there wasn't much time left."

"The relationship is what it is about. That's what matters in the end."

"Make the choice yourself to be here and be fully engaged."

"We're all in this together, and if we don't help one another, who will?"

"I fear dying without that connection."

"If you don't have the support and love and concern that you get from family and friends, then everything else is not important."