a;ghfds;gh;g I finished this book in a day. I couldn't put it down. It was so sad, but so amazingly awesome. I'm sure many of you have read this already, considering it's fairly new and a quick, easy read. What were your favorite Morrie aphorisms? Oh, and is the movie version worth watching?

I read that book a couple of months ago and loved it. They even put a chapter of it in my English literature book.

"Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone."

"Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me-even in my current condition."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"

"Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it."

"You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

"Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."

oh, i've heard of this book. i want to read it.

I read this a while ago. My aunt gave it to me. My uncle died 3 years ago of ALS (the disease morrie had). i remember crying after i finished it. Morrie was a lot like my uncle. It was a fantastic book. I want to read it again now.

this book is fantastic. it really teaches you things. our english teacher assigned it to us and i loved it. i normally am more of a fantasy reader, but this book is really great.

i cried when Mitch was crying and was like

"I love you Coach"



that one was good!

i know i liked others but i don't know any off-hand and i dont have the book.

"Learn to detach.
But that detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate it you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.
But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.' "

Read The Five People You Meet In Heaven! I personally liked it a lot more.

^ Yeah, I'm going to read that soon.

I started, but I plan on finishing it soon. I love it so far. I have The Five People You Meet in Heaven too, but haven't started that one yet.

the best book ever. no lie.

This is one of my all time favorite books.
Gosh. It was awesome!

i heart it.

it should be a sin not to read it

OH MY GOSH! i just read the first 2 pages the other day and I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! people told me it was boring but i was like " whatever, i don't care. i'm going to read it. " and i'm SO HAPPY that i did!

i absolutely LOVED this book. it made me cry so bad. but anyway, this is my favorite from morrie: *may not exactly be an aphorism*

"it`s so sad that we have to die before someone says something nice about us"

i thought it was so true.

i have a lot of other favorites from the book, but that was the one that really stood out.

hmm, so many people have been talking about it lately.
Even my boyfriend has been telling me I should read it,
and after reading this thread, I think I will put it on my reading list.

i've heard about the book and the movie but i've never read or watched them.
it sounds very good though... i should probably pick it up.

i've never heard of read the book..but u guys make it sound soo good..i guess i'll buy or borrow the book...and see if its really that good.

i love mitch albom. how do you go from a sports writer to a person that writes amazing tearjerkers? seriously. i cried when i read this.