Tuesday Morrie Forgiveness Quotes

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On the Twelfth Tuesday Morrie and Mitch talk about forgiveness. Morrie told Mitch that their is no point of living your life regretting things that you have done in the past and he said to Mitch "Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others" (p.164). The mean point of Morrie saying this quote is that you must forgive yourselves for the things you have or haven't done in the past and accepting who you are now.Also we truly cannot forgive other if we didn't forgive ourselves and you have to accept your regret .And Morrie want us to not wait to say sorry to someone. Because It´s very important to every and each one of us to say sorry and apologize for everything we had done wrong in our life. We all had done things that we regret

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