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the word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless

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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...more

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All who are born are always dying.

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I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?

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Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a well.. He met with meditation t...more

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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...more

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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 ...more

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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'...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more

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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...more