He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn’t always pretty. But then, he didn’t worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.
Like a hidden grieving that rises to grab the heart, his soul was ambushed with old emotions, and his lips began to tremble and he was swept into the current of all that he had lost.
He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.
You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.
How could there be new life in his beard when it was draining everywhere else?
He opened his eyes. He exhaled. “You know what the Buddhists say? Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.
Even God couldn’t be that cruel.
An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you’ll make something of yourself.
Kita mengira kebencian adalah senjata untuk melawan orang yang melukai kita, tapi kebencian adalah pisau melengkung. Dan kerusakan yang kita lakukan pada orang lain, kita lakukan pula pada diri sendiri.
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. “The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
Mungkin ini akan terasa aneh untuk memulai sebuah kisah dengan sebuah akhir. Tapi semua akhir juga merupakan permulaan. Kita hanya belum mengetahuinya saat itu.
How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you?
Hidup memang saling berhubungan, seluruh kehidupan adalah satu. Karena kehidupan sebelum kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan kita. Dan kehidupan kita akan berpengaruh pada kehidupan setelah kita.
When people tell me that I’m good, my response is, ‘I’m trying.’ But there’s some people that know me from back when – anytime I make that trip to New York – and when they hear I’m the pastor of a church, all of a sudden, it’s like “I know you gettin’ paid, boy. I know you gettin’ paid. I know you.’” He paused. His voice lowered. “No, I say. You knew me. You knew that person, but you don’t know the person that I’m trying to become.
The genius of life is its variety.
Taking just makes me feel like I’m dying. Giving makes me feel like I’m living.
Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.
It’s the blending of the different notes that makes the music.
If you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what goes on between you, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don’t have a common set of values in life, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
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. “But believe me, when you are dying, you see it is true. We all have the same beginning – birth – and we all have the same end – death. So how different can we be?