Life In August Wilson's Tuesdays With Morrie

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.(Bertrand Russell) This quote shows on how life is founded on love and we are guided by knowledge on how we live our life. As the quote states Morrie lived his life, having a loving family and was a very knowledgeable life. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches various lessons about life in this essay I will talk about three Tuesdays.
For the first Tuesday I would like to talk about is the 5th Tuesday Family, Morrie teaches that the family is the foundation of our lives. Morries belief in the family is important because when he was a child, he saw that both of his parents died. He then went on to have a happy marriage and loving family.”There is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family”. (Albom p. 91) I agree with Morrie on this topic because a person is shaped from that person has which sometimes leads to problems later on because the family was not very close or not had a great foundation. For me family is important because it has shaped in the way I think and how I act and how I perceive others i always take my time to get to know someone before making judgements because that is the way they have taught me.
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Morrie teaches that there is more to life than money and that it doesn’t substitute it for love or tenderness. “Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power is not a substitute for tenderness”. (Albom p.125). I agree with Morrie on this topic because money is never important in life because it leads to problems with people, they always end up wanting more. In my life money seems to be a problem within my life because it's something i’m always needing for things, but i feel like that it's not as important as someone's feelings or their feelings towards

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