#tuesday

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

Everyone knows they're going to die but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#living #mitch #morrie #tuesdays-with-morrie #death

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#mitch #tuesdays-with-morrie #death

...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#equality

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. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#tuesdays-with-morrie #experience

The tension of opposites: 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, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#tuesdays-with-morrie #life

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life

Build a little community of those you love and who love you ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#love

Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#love

The most important thing in life is to learn How to give out love and to let it come in. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#love