Tuesdays With Morrie, knee surgery, and more.

📚 A&B #192

May 26, 2024

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📚 Book Summary:

This week’s book is “Tuesdays With Morrie” by Mitch Albom.

It’s a heart-touching memoir that chronicles the relationship between Mitch and his former college professor Morrie–who is battling a terminal illness. It’s filled with life lessons on love, relationships, and purpose.

If you enjoyed “When Breath Becomes Air”, you’ll like this book.

And since it’s a memoir, I think you’ll find more value from reading the story than from trying to pull actionable advice from it (it’s also 190 pages so it’s a short read).

So here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book:

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

  2. “The way you get meaning in 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.”

  3. “How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self-pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.”

  4. “Do the kind of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.”

  5. “It’s not just other people we need to forgive…We also need to forgive ourselves…for all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.”

  6. “Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

  7. “Without love we are birds with broken wings.”

  8. “You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.’

  9. “If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.

  10. “Once you learn how to die and you learn how to live.”

  11. “As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away…You live on–in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”

  12. “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

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