Aphorisms In Tuesdays With Morrie

This book “Tuesdays with Morrie” , is about a man who has a medical condition which is slowly taking away his ability to even move and talk,this is called ALS. He expresses his thoughts on life and on death, and about everything in life people usually have a hard time expressing. I really did like this book in the fact of he talks about things that have gone through my mind at some point. Also just hearing Morries stories leading to how he lived his last days and how he grew was inspiring. Some aphorisms that stood out to me were, 1. “...Love is how you stay alive, even after you're gone” 2. “What if today were my last day on earth” 3. “Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness”.
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This quote I really like too, because there has always been and there is a lot of people nowadays are very materialistic. If you have money you can't replace that for love or for care, if you have power so goes for that. Life is not based on those things, yes your life can go way two different pathways if you have those two things (money and power). That doesn't make you a higher person or less of a person in my book. Like morrie says in the book “neither money or power will give you the feeling you're looking …show more content…
Many a lot of people have yet to learn. How to be humble in your life, how to live your life with self-peace, and love with all of your heart. Morrie was one example of many who left this world hoping to have made a change for the better, and did. How do you overcome death? Find your importance, find amazing people to surround yourself with, and live. In life things are nothing compare to people and love, family. In the end those materialistic things will perish, they will be no more. But what will stay forever is those memories people have in their hearts all the laughing and deep moment you have, that's what