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Tuesdays with Morrie: Summary

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom sheds light on some long-forgotten yet meaningful things that make life worth living. We have made ourselves so immersed in planning for a better future that we have completely forgotten to live and cherish the present. In times like these, we all need guidance from a person who takes us out from the darkness of our chaotic lives to the serenity and calmness of things life offers us.

This story is about Mitch Albom and his sociology professor Morrie Schwartz. Mitch graduated from his college with a promise to his professor to stay in touch. But then, life happened, and he lost contact with his friends and professor from college. Mitch had to face many bitter realities in his life which completely changed the course of his life and he became a journalist for a newspaper, leaving behind his dream to be a pianist. 

Morrie had taught Mitch twenty years prior, until one day Mitch saw his old professor on a famous tv show. This brought into the memory lane of Mitch; the long-lost memories and good old days spent with his professor in college, so he takes a flight to meet his dying professor. The first meeting between Mitch and Morrie might be formal from Mitch's side but on the part of Morrie, it was like they never parted ways. This meeting becomes an interaction for every Tuesday for Mitch to learn the subject of death and life from Morrie in his death bed.

Tuesdays with Morrie: Book Review

Mitch Albom; Tuesdays with Morrie

Unlike other people, who are left with only a few months to live their life they spend it depressing and contemplating the past. Contrastingly, in this book Mitch Albom has talked about how his dying sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, had spent the last few months of his life relishing every moment of his life. Not only that, this book gives you so many lessons about life and death, you can learn from both; it depends on you which perspective you take. In the last few mot of his life, Morrie taught the most important subject to his dearest student Mitch, which will make you feel all the emotions as you read the book. You might not be Mitch Albom but at some point, while reading this book, you are going to wish to have had a teacher like Morrie :’)))

Idk if my review did justice to this wonderful book, but I’m going to say that give it a read and you are bound to fall in love with it. This is the kind of book that makes you feel like someone has put a warm blanket on you on a cold December day. 

Tuesdays with Morrie: Quotes

Here are some of my favorite lines from Tuesdays with Morrie.

 "My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied"

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and forgive others. Don’t assume that it’s too late to get involved”

“Dying is the only thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. So many people living their life are unhappy”

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We are teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work don’t buy it”

“I may be dying but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?”

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. you take certain things for granted, yet you know you should never take anything for granted”

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in”

“We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. Love is the only rational act”

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it”

“If you hold back on the emotions- if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them- you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid”

“How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don’t let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry”

“We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of- unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn’t get enough”

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay. It is growth”

“Oh, if I were young again!” “You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven’t found meaning. Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward”

“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

“We are great at small talk. But really listening to someone- without trying to sell them something, pick them up, recruit them, or get some kind of status in return- how often do we get this anymore?”

“We all have the same beginning- birth- and we all have the same end- death. So how different can we be?”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others”

“it’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves, for all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You cant get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened”

“You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you”

“None of us can undo what we have done, or relive a life already recorded. There is no such thing as ‘too late’ in life”