Inspirational Quotes › By Teacher › Mitch Albom

• The way you get meaning in your life is to devote yourself to others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Motivational Quotes on: Purpose, Devo, Life, The Way, Give

• Learn to detach...Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully. That's how you are able to leave it... Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. 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. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that love entails. 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.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Motivational Quotes on: Fear, Love, Experience, Learn, Emotion, The Moment, Cling, Pain, The Way, Busy, Motion, Win

• Accept who you are and revel in that.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

• You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Famous Quotes on: Action, Act, Give

• The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Famous Quotes on: Work, Good, People, Strong

• Here's what I mean by building your own subculture...I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things--how we think, what we value--those you must choose for yourself. You can't let anyone--or any society--determine those for you.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Self-Development Quotes on: Think, Light, Obey, Little Things

• Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Self-Development Quotes on: Give

• The biggest defect we human beings have is our short-sightedness. We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.

  ~ Mitch Albom quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

  Famous Quotes on: Stretch, Potential