Tuesdays With Morrie

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Tuesdays With Morrie
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ALS

• ALS causes nerve cells to degenerate. The
  voluntary muscles weaken and become immobile. ALS
  leaves the senses unimpaired and the intellect is
  often unaffected

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Laws of Nature

• Action--gtReaction

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• Action Newspaper strike
• Reaction Mitch catches Morrie on Nightline
  creating a lifeline

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• Action disease progresses
• Reaction Morrie learns to accept help from others

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• Action Morrie worried about leaving his family
  with a ton of medical bills
• Reaction Mitch gets advance for Tuesdays With
  Morrie

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• Action Mitch loses Morrie
• Reaction Mitch re-connects with his brother

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• Action Morrie Schwartz dies
• Reaction Memory lives on in book.

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Morries Lessons

• Take time to stare out the window instead of at
  computer screen
• Laugh
• Its natural to die
• Love is how you stay alive

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Aphorisms

• a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise
  statement of a principle or precept given in
  pointed words.

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• As long as we love each other, and remember the
  feeling of love we had, we can die without ever
  really going away

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• If you don't respect the other person, you're
  gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know
  how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of
  trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes
  on between you, you're gonna have a lot of
  trouble. And if you don't have a common set of
  values in life, you're gonna have a lot of
  trouble. Your values must be alike. And the
  biggest one of all those values is your belief in
  the importance of your marriage. (Pg149)

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• Most of us all walk around as if we are sleep
  walking, We dont really experience the world
  fully, because we are half-asleep, doing things
  we automatically think we should do. (When facing
  death)You strip away all that stuff and you focus
  on the essentials. (Pg83)