"the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless
All who are born are always dying.
More Mitch Albom quotes
"But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into ev...
"When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
"I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
"And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid t...
"Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between
"For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving tha...
"Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?" I decided ...
"But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we'...
"He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their pr...
"I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his ow...
"It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just d...
"A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life an...