自我與規則,這是我們出社會之後,被迫學會的兩個詞彙。為了維持場面圓融,只好隱藏自我。為了避免生事,絕不多嘴。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
責任是自身行為的結果,以及從中產生的事實。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
贏了或輸了,不過是一種結果和現象。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
有期限的承諾,請在期限內實現。沒有期限的承諾,也切莫無限期拖延,應盡早實現。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
承諾是人與人之間信任的證據。所謂信任,是連繫人與人之間的紐帶。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
逃走時,所受到的最大傷害,就是留在你心裡的懊悔吧?【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
要做到別讓那個人留下來的記憶,從生者的心中與記憶中消逝。要將我們過去繼承的東西沿傳下去,讓後代也能夠繼承,並共同擁有它。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
死亡不是人生的結束,而是生涯的完成。<馬丁路德>【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
一個人究竟甚麼時候會死?是被人遺忘的時候啊!【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
友誼並非由交往時間所建立起來,而是由密度的相互認同所建立起來的。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
名言就是具有力量的言辭。【方飧正彰:航海王名言集】
讀我的書的正確方式,就是不要只讀我的書。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
不要釐清,晚上比較不會作惡夢。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
假如一件事是對的,那不需要神說那是對的,那仍然是對的。能夠讓我認同的神,是一個講道理的神。他說的話應該要即使不是神說的,也能讓我認同。假如他要以他神的身分,要求我接受我不能認同的事情,那他是我敵人的喉舌,不是我的神。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
愛國是意味著保護自己身邊在這片土地上的,對他而言很重要的人們。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
如果我有力量,我會保護那些願意對弱者伸出援手的好人,讓他們繁衍增加,這就是正義!【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
那些人的普世價值,意思是把我的價值觀普及到你的世界。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
天賦人權是普世價值,普世價值是不證自明的。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我國的古籍都是這樣的。讀一本沒用,還要讀很多其他書,在生活中增長經驗,累積自己對世界的了解,才能真正明白那本書裡在說什麼。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
不可能有讀了一本書就什麼都懂了這種事。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我立足於夢,幻想真實的再造!眼前所見皆為心之障!我遺忘彼世的生命,在此刻此地成就醒覺的倒影!【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
以前人類會急著想知道哪裡死了人、怎麼死的,不追求這些知識就保不住自己的命。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
禁,就算他能帶來利益,那卻遠遠不及他所帶來的傷害。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
作事奸邪,盡汝燒香何益;居心正直,見我不拜無妨。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
通過考驗,我們可以提早知道自己可能犯下的錯誤,提早思考。那麼當生命裡的考驗來臨時,我們手上已經有了答案。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
不要跟你最親近的人比較,因為他也不會和你計較。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
人類想把他占為己有,所以給他取了名字,結果人類自己成了那個名字的奴隸。為了那個名字爭鬥、死亡、剝削和被剝削、自欺欺人、逼迫他人說謊,直到深陷永劫之中仍不悔悟。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
善良是一種因為傾向於不和社會對抗,所以可以很容易加以欺騙和壓榨的人格特質。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
權威是一種可以用來命令別人贊成自己,而且被社會允許指鹿為馬的無形權力。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
人類喜歡邪惡改過自新的故事,足夠讓他們用信心遮住自己的眼睛。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
教廷以前在異大陸傳教用的策略。剛開始先單純作善事分送糧食什麼的,等成為好人好事代表,在善良的領域成為權威以後,再用這個權威威脅他們不照我們的話作就是壞人——【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
就因為不讓小孩知道,如果他們殺人,就會有人要殺他;不讓小孩知道,買東西不付賬,就不會有人肯給他們東西;不讓小孩知道,如果他總是威脅別人,遲早會被別人先下手為強。人類的社會才會這麼亂!【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
人類是一種會保育笨蛋的種族。要是有個人類又笨又懶,不事生產只會剝削他人成果,又到處向強者和權力者挑釁,還喜歡硬闖危險的禁止進入地區,作出各種會讓自己死掉的行為,人類會想盡辦法讓他活下去。可是如果是一個謹慎又會思考的人類,人類會讓他自己想辦法,不幫他任何事,為各種事作安排時也不會為他著想。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
這次的回答比較人類一點,沒有把情緒當成主要動機,而是把引發情緒的責任推到別人身上。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
因為這個世界是無限的。即使扣掉那些你已知的不可能,你依舊不會知道你將碰到什麼事情,所以會因為那些事情而改變的自己,就有無限種可能的未來。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
除了人格之外,不要用其他條件去評價一個人。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
璽克從來沒有想過要忘記那些事,但他也沒有讓那些事壓垮他。他只是接受了。接受他身上就是發生過這些事,接受他現有的一切是建立在他的過去上,包括好與壞、幸與不幸的遭遇。他就照這樣走下去,不去評價這一切。如果他能從中得到一點教訓,就記住吧;如果會被拖住,那就拖著走吧;如果那會成為未來的基石,就爬上去;如果那會讓他的人生崩潰,就盡可能的修補。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我們應該用心去感受《神諭經》背後神賜予我們的教化,而不是沒頭沒腦的逐字解讀經文,從而在實質上背離了神的教誨。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
在法師這一行,活得久的人就贏了。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
把話說得太清楚,常常就說偏了。這個世界本來就不清不楚的,把事情一一看清楚,才是看不到這個世界喔。那些把規矩定得死死的人,到死都不知道這個世界是怎麼回事。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
未成年的輕率還沒擦干淨,剛成年的輕狂還沒拿到手。反正不是被過去絆著就是想像太遙遠的未來,每次跌倒都像天塌了一樣,不把事情完美的解決,就覺得永遠都解決不了了。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
對方擺明了妳沒資格通過天堂之門,妳難道要乖乖去地獄嗎?【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我們敬鬼神,但不是給鬼神放牧的羊群。我們本身的生活才是重要的,神協助我們生活,祂沒有權利對我們扔硫磺和火,也不能殺我們的孩子和母親。我們的神就像一個醫術高超、救人無數的醫生那麼值得尊敬,但我們並不受祂統治。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
在真神教裡,人只能努力討好神,卻不能要求神有任何回報,神也不需要給人任何擔保。如果神覺得人的討好不夠,或是祂不相信人類是真心的,他不需要給人類機會解釋,可以直接降災給人類,進行殘忍的報復。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
世人只允許一男一女的組合無所事事。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
在你強大到足以背負自己出生時帶到世上的禮物之前,最好像個普通人一樣的活下去。安靜的累積力量和智慧——直到你本人比那份禮物更有價值的時候。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
無知絕對不會使人純真,只會讓人在面對污穢的事物時,無法分辨,也不懂拒絕。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
你們並不勇敢,但是仍然擁有勇氣。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
無論是只看書不體驗,還是只體驗不看書,對人類這短暫的生命來說,都無法累積多少智慧。人類充其一生,能憑自己本領,從發現問題到解開答案的過程,只能完成那麼寥寥幾次而已。因此才有書。人生體驗使人產生問題,而前人曾經解開過的答案都在書裡,擁有相同問題的人,可以從中得到前人一生的成果。因此,讀書才可以讓人快速成長。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
大人不只是比較會賺錢而已,也比較知道怎樣避免為錢毀了自己。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
要罵好髒話,必須要在心裡有明確的想罵髒話的情緒。當一個人類在罵髒話的時候,他並不是在說那個字詞,而是在發泄自己的靈魂,表達自己的本性。當你罵髒話的時候,將無可避免的對這個世界展示你是什麼樣的人。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
現實就等於可行!【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
理想化過頭就不能算優點了。過頭就跟嘴炮沒有兩樣。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
法律是道德的最低標准,刑罰是治安最後一道防線【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
全世界最有錢的宗教,就是嘴上說神幫人不求任何回報,實際上他們的信徒卻把所有財產都拿來榮耀神。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我覺得在還有人會犯下殺人罪的時候,我們本來就不是文明社會了,既然本來就不文明,當然需要死刑啊。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
董事長表面風光,其實除了可以一手搞垮公司之外,什麼事都要股東同意才能作。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
要他承認那個在危急關頭軟腳,連逃跑都作不好的家伙是他老大,他心裡那個不為荷包進帳負責的角落十分不樂意。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我沒有興趣靠著奉獻靈魂換取當狗的資格。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我希望是個率性自在,不管對什麼樣的怪人都真誠相待的人。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
我正在自我檢討,評估我自作孽害到自己的機率是否高得不像話。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
活力跟外表無關,也跟口頭上的高談闊論無關。你對這個世界的每一件事都有興趣,這就是活力。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
你騙我這種說法完全是不成熟的小鬼頭在用的。在大人的社會裡,騙人是司空見慣的事情,在某些圈子裡甚至是社交活動的基礎。就算知道自己被騙了,就連對方是惡意為之的情況下,也不能直接用這句話指責對方。只能拐個彎子責備對方缺乏誠信,不然自己就會得到天真浪漫、過度老實的評價,而且每個人都會認為是因為被騙的一方太笨才會被騙。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
正常人搖頭的時候,頭會轉動,但是眼珠會往頭轉的反方向轉動,讓視線定在同一個點上,這樣才不會頭暈。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
比起我的事,我看你比較關心煎餅吧。小碴笑說。才沒這回事呢。璽克目光依舊定在煎餅上,毫無說服力的說:我只有眼睛和胃屬於煎餅,心和耳朵都是你的。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
所謂保留提告的權利,白話點說就是:雖然我現在沒有要告你,不過要是你又作了什麼讓我不爽的事情,或是我突然覺得不爽了起來,我就會拿這件事把你告上法院,根據錄音證據向你要一大筆賠償金。這是一句經過專業用語掩飾,效果不折不扣卻又不會觸犯恐嚇罪的威脅行為。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
邪惡的外行人不一樣,他們徒勞無功的造成各種傷害,又為了自己的失誤而遷怒他人。他們心裡沒有一把尺,行為也沒有規範,他們所作之事是純然的褻瀆。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
邪惡的專家知道自己在作什麼,知道要怎樣有效率的達成。他們對自己的瘋狂行為帶著敬意,那是正常人所不能理解的虔誠,另一種標准的神聖。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
你忙報仇,我忙打劫,不衝突!【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
騎士對於任務目標非常的堅持,又喜歡呼叫支援。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
燭光真好,脆弱、燃燒自己,給人們照明,而且總是在哭。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
他們似乎活在一種跟生命無關的世界裡,在那裡,重要的只有用笑臉(而非喜悅)堆迭出來的虛假歡樂。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
他們臉上的確是在笑沒錯,但是沒有人是那種由衷開心的笑。有些人笑是因為他們希望露出笑臉可以讓他們自己覺得開心,有些人笑是因為這個場合不允許人哭,有些人笑是因為看到別人充滿痛苦的擠出笑容。【笑獅彈劍:法師三定律】
這些人從不看電視新聞,從不對地球的未來感到絕望嗎?【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
我不能親吻你們,但我的心擁抱你們。【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
儘管成年了,但仍然是呆頭呆腦的,覺得自己什麼忙也幫不上。總是為尋找自己的位置而急得團團轉。【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
我們有時自以為是笑,其實不是。那只是在撇撇嘴而已。【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
人生就是這樣。它不會多也不會少!它也許不能盡如人意,但它好歹也盡力了。我們不該太苛求人生,別說想結束它了,還不如多看看事情好的一面。 【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
用歲月來自殺吧!【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
戲中的一切都很美好,很不切實際,所以勢必也很愚蠢。【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
噢,赤子的腦海呀,堪稱夢幻仙境的建築師!【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
三島摸黑走下樓梯,一嘀咕:「啊唷,什麼都看不見,早晚要摔個吃狗屎的!」亞倫在樓梯上方提議:「爸爸呀,與其抱怨太暗,不如把燈打開嘛。」【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
我在殘酷的世界裏孤軍奮戰,無人賞識.....【尚.德雷:找死專賣店】
孤獨造就了社會裡「特立獨行」的個體,他們不因群體價值而妥協、誠實地面對自己的孤獨,而給予社會創發新意的可能。珍視孤獨感產生的瞬間,當我們與孤獨共處,我們將更瞭解自己。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
孤獨來自於:內心情感無處可訴的「情慾孤獨」;字句無法溝通的「語言孤獨」;理想未竟的「革命孤獨」;壓迫人性所造成的「暴力孤獨」;哲思考者不為人了解的「思維孤獨」;世代價值交替所造成的「倫理孤獨」。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
我渴望孤獨,珍惜孤獨。好像只有孤獨生命可以變得豐富而華麗。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
生命真的有意義嗎?可能生命的意義就是在尋找意義的過程,你以為找到了反而失去意義,當你開始尋找時,那個狀態才是意義。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
鸚鵡羽色鮮豔,非常搶眼,而牠又會學人說話,牠如果學了「我愛你」,是學會了聲音還是學會了內容?而我們說話都有內容嗎?抑或不過是發音而已?【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
語言,變成一種外在的模式符號,其內在的本質完全被遺忘。原本是我們每天要唸的東西,因為模式化之後,語言和思想分離了,只剩下聲音,而這些聲音無法在生命中產生意義。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
革命,真正的革命並不是動刀動槍,而是革除掉腦中腐敗、霸道、墮落的部分。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
某位西方作家說過的一句話:「如果你二十五歲時不是共產黨員,你一輩子不會有希望;如果你二十五歲以後還是共產黨員,你這一輩子也不會有什麼希望。」【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
原來他說的「共產黨」就是革命,講的是一個夢想,當你二十五歲時有過一個激昂的夢想,一生不會太離譜,因為那是一個烏托邦式的寄託;可是二十五歲以後,你應該務實了,卻還在相信遙遠的夢想,大概人生就沒什麼希望了。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
革命者的孤獨是革命者迷戀自己年輕時候的潔癖,而且深信不疑。你相信理想是極其美好的,而且每個人都做得到,你也相信每個人的道德都是高尚的,會願意共同為了這個理想而努力。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
在部落時代隱含人類生存最早的價值,和高貴的情操,部落的領袖都是因為暴力而成為領袖,他可以雙手撕裂一隻山豬的四肢,可以徒手打敗一隻獅子或老虎,過程絕對都是血淋淋的,在血淋淋的畫面中,還有部族對成功者和領袖的崇拜與歡呼。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
那麼當領袖進入文質彬彬、有教養的時代,這個潛藏的暴力本性到哪裡去了?如果暴力是人性的一部分,那麼在美學裡,如何被傳遞?如何被思考?如何被觀察?如何被表現?【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
先有結局,就不會有思考、推論的過程。個體的獨立性應該表現在敢於跳脫大眾的語言、說出懷疑和不同的思考方式,而不是結局或結論。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
我相信,我們的社會需要更多的孤獨者,更多的叛逆者,勇於說出不一樣的話,但要注意的是,這不是結局;如果你認為這是結局,就會以為「他只是在作怪」,當你拋開結局的想法時,才能理解對方是在提出不同的想法。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
我不希望有血緣,血緣是我巨大的負擔和束縛。父母是我們最大的原罪,是一輩子還不了的虧欠,就是欠他骨肉,欠他血脈。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
倫理孤獨是當前社會最難走過的一環,也最不容易察覺,一方面是倫理本身有一個最大的掩護--愛,因為愛是無法對抗的,我們可以對抗恨,很難去對抗愛。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
大人常說:「這本小說不能看,看了會變壞。」我認為,對人性的無知才是使人變壞的肇因,因為他不懂得悲憫。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
孤獨是一種渴望,可以讓我與自己對話,或是從讀一本小說中摸索自己的人生。思辨(摸索)的過程是什麼?就是一個人在做周密的思考前,不會立刻下結論,他會從各種角度探討,再從推論的過程中,整理出自己的想法跟看法。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
得出的結論,可能與大眾不同。在群眾裡面,我們會很安全;跟大多數人一樣,就不會被發現。而堅持百分之零點一的角色會非常非常辛苦,他可能是傷風敗俗,他可能眾所囑目,也可能是眾矢之的。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
你要選擇哪一條路?是走出人群的快樂,還是以大眾的方式處世比較輕鬆?【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
孤獨和寂寞不一樣。寂寞會發慌,孤獨則是飽滿的,是莊子說的『獨與天地精神往來』,是確定生命與宇宙間的對話,已經到了最完美的狀態。【蔣勳:孤獨六講】
一萬人生下來,總有幾個出故障的。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
人必須按自己想要的方式生活。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
學校就是社會的縮影,強壯的小孩作威作褔,弱小的小孩受人欺負,會讀書的小孩得意揚揚。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
兒子對老媽大吼。老爸進門聽到後,大吼回去:「你在跟誰說話!她做你媽以前,是我的女人!」 【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
人最不了解自已,最清楚別人。因為,人都只看到自己的好。所以,不要討厭別人。如果有人說你不好,就當是合不來罷了。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
大人們整天忙碌,又以"教育者"的眼光看小孩,難免嚴厲。但老人們已經從生活的第一線退開,不必有那種氣勢,可以開開心心和小孩在一起。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
即使有兩三個人討厭你,轉過身還有一億人。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
食物不是因為好吃而高級,是因為小而高級。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
不要總說錢啊錢的,就是有一億元錢,也造不出一條金魚來!【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
花店的花都有人施肥,又有人照顧,長得大是當然。這朵野花雖然很小,但靠自己的力量努力開出的花,才最美麗。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
惹人討厭的事情就是太招搖。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
吝嗇最差勁!節儉是天才!【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
窮有兩種:窮得消沉和窮得開朗。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
我討厭歷史。 那就說"我不拘泥於過去。"【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
讓人察覺不到的體貼,才是真正的體貼,真正的關切。【島田洋七:佐賀的超級阿嬤】
No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
the world, I discovered, was not all that interested.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?
I decided I'm going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. 【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Dying is one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. Because the culture we have doesn’t make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Love wins. Love always wins.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
they gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
so many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
the way you get meaning into 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.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
the most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
so we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Do you take care of others or take care of your "inner child"? Return to traditional values or reject tradition as useless? Seek success or seek simplicity? Just Say No or just Do It?【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Morrie was taught to love and to care. And to learn.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
to know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
How can you ever be prepared to die?
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, `Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time then you might not be as ambitious as you are.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Why is it so hard to think about dying?Because, most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Family - it's not the same as having someone who will not leave. It's not the same as having someone whom you know has an eye on you, is watching you the whole time. 【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
You want to get right before it's too late.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children. 【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
I would not have missed that experience for anything. Even though there is a painful price to pay because you'll be leaving them.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
I dove into work. I worked because I could control it. I worked because work was sensible and responsive.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
You can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
How we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of-unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
U never hear people say, I wish I were 65.U know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives.Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, U don't want to go back.U want to go forward.U want to see more, do more.U can't wait until 65【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
these were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
there's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need, the truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things (external things). Offering others what you have to give.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Finding a meaningful life? Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
If U're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow.And if U're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy U. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow U to float equally between everyone.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Giving to other people is what makes me feel alive.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn. --MAHATMA GANDHI【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world. When he’s talking to you now, he tries to keep focused only on what is going on between us.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
I would rather put my energies into people.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Marriage. Almost everyone I knew had a problem with it. Some had problems getting into it, some had problems getting out.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
they (Charlotte and Morrie) worked as a team, often needing no more than a silent glance to understand what the other was thinking.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
You get tested. You find out who you are, who the other person is, and how you accommodate or don't.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
A few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
A few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
A few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
A few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: 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.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Job is a good mare, but God makes him suffer. To test his faith.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
the big things-how we think, what we value-those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society determine those for you.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
we don't believe we are as much alike as we are.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them . . .【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
things pulling in different directions?【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Make peace with living.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Death ends a life, not a relationship.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
Once you get your fingers on the important questions, you can't turn away from them.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
there is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
None of us can undo what we've done, but there is no such thing as "too late" in life.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】
No books were required. The subject was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience.【Mitch_Albom:Tuesdays with Morrie】