It's natural to die," he said again. "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."

He smiled at the plant.

"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.


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Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness ...
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That was the end of his driving..
That was the end of his walking free..
That was the en...
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Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and...
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I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
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Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and...
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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
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Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the d...
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I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were n...
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When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paraly...
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With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.
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Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
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There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.
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I think people expect too much from marriage today" he said. "They expect perfection. Every moment s...
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When you are measuring life, you are not living it.
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Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.
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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch.
Living unhappily i...
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You can...
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Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...
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What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university ...
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I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like m...
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I had also developed my own culture. Work.
Over the years, I had taken labor as my companion a...
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Then he commandeered the floor, shooting back and forth like some hot Latin lover. When he finished,...
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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
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You have to work at creating your own culture.
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Love lost is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bri...
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever go...
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
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But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him ...
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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
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There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each da...
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As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the huma...
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—unt...
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was goi...
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A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,...
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You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...
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I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me...
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It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh...
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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
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Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
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I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
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And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
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Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
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