Tuesdays with Morrie

Read this book quite long ago, but now rereading what I found out from that book. Wow, I finally understand the real meaning of 温故知新.

THE WORLD

- Do I wither up and disappear or do I make the best of my time left?

- Life is a series of pulls back and forth

- Never take things for granted

FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF

- The culture that we have does not always make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say that if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

- So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy doing things that they think are important.

- The way to get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to the community and create something that gives you purpose and meaning.

- Learn how to give out love and let it come in.

- Sometimes, you cannot believe what you see, you have to belief what you feel.

REGRETS

- If you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too, even when you're in the dark, even when you're falling.

- Would I regret the secrets I had kept hidden?

DEATH

- The culture doesn't encourage you to think about dying till you're about to die. We're so wrapped in egotistical things. We don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives asking: is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

- Everyone knows that they're going to die, but nobody believes in it. If we did, we would do things differently.

- Know that you're going to die and be prepared for it. You can be more involved in your life while you are living.

- Learn how to die and you learn how to live.

- Most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We don't experience the world fully and do things we automatically think we have to do

- Death allows you to focus on the essentials. When you realize you're going to die, you see everything much differently

- We are too involved in materialistic things that we take for granted the loving relationships we have, the universe around us

FAMILY

- If you don't have the support, love, care and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is supremely important.

- Letting others know that there's always someone watching out for them - family

These are like the wise words of Morrie, where he taught Mitch the greatest lesson a teacher could ever teach a student, and that's how to live. Some wise words I copied down sooo long ago, but oh well, was reading it in the bus to kinda motivate myself.