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April 25,2025
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I’ve never highlighted so much of a book in my life. This was incredible
April 25,2025
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This was a great book for looking at life and reflecting on how you live it. As someone who deals with a lot of stress and frustration, it was refreshing for me to hear Morrie's outlook on things. Hearing such a positive and down to earth view of life and how it should be lived coming from a man with a terminal illness made me realize I spend too much time sweating the small stuff.

I think this quick read can be enjoyed by anyone and has at least a little something in it for everyone.
April 25,2025
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درسته که سه‌شنبه‌ها با موری از لحاظ ادبی و کیفیت محتوای اندیشه برای مخاطب خاص مثل شوخی به نظر می‌رسه؛ اما برای مخاطب عام، اون کسی که ازت می‌پرسه «من کتابخون نیستم، یه کتاب بهم معرفی می‌کنی که جذبم کنه و باعث شه فکر هم بکنم؟»، می‌تونه پیشنهاد بهتری از لاطائلات کوئیلو یا رمان‌های زرد عاشقانه باشه. باید به این قبیل کتاب‌ها احترام گذاشت، ولی به طور کامل تاییدشون نکرد.
April 25,2025
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It is only when you read this book that you will realise how lucky you are! Until then you will feel okay pushing it aside for a later date! What a fallacy in judgement that would be!...

To motivate, I was 5 pages down the book and I quit all the important goal-stuff I was busy being involved with alongside, simply so I could no longer consider wasting precious seconds away from what all the book had begun offering!

Mitch, speaking about a man who was dying of ALS—> Here was a man who, if he wanted, could spend every waking moment in self-pity feeling his body for decay, counting his breaths. So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds. They already have something else in mind——a friend to call, a fax to send, a lover they’re daydreaming about. They only snap back into full attention when you finish talking, at which point they say “Uh-huh” or ‘Yeah, really” and fake their way back to the moment.


“Part of the problem, Mitch, is that everyone is in such a hurry,” Morrie said. “People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they are running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty too, and they keep running.”





Life-changing….so much of my way of thinking has altered by reading this book….Hats off to the author for that! I fell so deeply in love with Morrie and watching him dwindle and fade away into dust broke me down on my way to the OT.


For many years, I have wondered how my father, who is a neurologist, broke the news of ALS to his patients. But, as a part of my interrogations, my thoughts trailed further than that. I wondered how the patient when hearing the news deals with the rest of his life thereafter. Does anybody really have the ability to think like Morrie? Morrie, as you will learn, when you read the book, refuses to live in a resignation of pain and instead converts the whole dying process into one of absolute celebration of life, discovering, and preaching to Mitch Alboom, in the process, how much awareness of “Death” has to teach about living an actual life. So I genuinely feel like father’s patients deserve this book so much!
I found something that they need so much more…..




In the midst of reading this novel, I took a post-workday trip at the ISKON temple in my city. It was 2:40 p.m. and the main building temple gates were shut and the accessible spaces were the marble verandahs of the temple, the gardens, the shopways and everything save only the interior of the Shikara and the Mandap. I removed my shoes, left them at the shoe counter and walked straight for the marble verandah which curved sideways——one on each side of the closed mandap—-and sported the kneeling heads of trees that graced the borders. Within this peaceful walkaway, myself the sole walker here in the warm afternoon, and glancing at the many colourful Krishna engravings depicting his overarching presence inside, outside and everywhere, I discovered so much peace that I realised I really have arrived at the point in my life where I wanted to (like deeply wanted to) put a period to my consideration of the incessant desires that floated across my mind—small and big——and just fall back and realise that I had found it——the IT——the spotlessness and limitlessness the whole world is looking for. In this nowhere-more-to-go realisation, I was liberated enough to understand how much I chased all my life so far and foolishly so, when all I was was a sand speck in the beach of humanity.


This indescribable endpoint in understanding is expressed in a different tone and language, by Morrie, whose life had been tragically cut short by the diagnosis of a terminal disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—A disease that slowly and steadily stills the working capacity of all your muscles in the body including the ones that allow you to breathe and swallow food—until one day, they quit and you suffocate. So the patient arrives at the point of noticing the suffocation and then dies. Morrie has a different plan for handling that slowly-shutting-down life—he converts it into a class so Mitch, the author of the book, and through him, you and me stand to live fuller, richer lives, in beautifully, verbalised truths that, now with death emerging out of his hiding place, crystallise into diamonds out of the dark mines of chase and hunt that govern so so so so much of our lives! So unnecessary! Like really, SO UNNECESSARY!





There are lines in the book that are so so so so so beautiful I can forget the whole world just by sitting with them. Here are some:

1. 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?

2. When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in this world. How much better would people get along if their first encounter each day were like this——instead of a grumble from a waitress or a bus driver or a boss?

3. Although it is hot, Morrie is wearing long sleeves, with a blanket over his legs, his skin pale—The disease owns him.


4. At a quick glance it seemed that Morrie were being packed for shipping.

5. (I am scared to give everything away but I will state this in a way modified from what’s in the book) It is precisely because we haven’t found contentment and fulfilment in our own lives that we are constantly seeking more and more, judging others when we don’t get what we are seeking. The book’s teachings beautifully match the transcendental teachings of Bhagwad Gita.

(I want to share so much more, but that would be toooo many spoilers)



For Indians (people who understand Hindi) reading my review, please watch the movie “Anand” available in Youtube. One, one one movie that you all need to watch before you die, much like reading this book is “Anand.”



Reading the book steeped me with the awareness of ‘Death’ all over again after my former entertainment of the gravity of this topic when reading ‘Death’ by Sadhguru himself. So, I became aware that the dearly-held idea that every single one of us (I believe so!) holds that we will be reaching old age, is merely an idea!!!! Like we are clinging to an idea and structuring our lives around it, delaying the play of wisdom in our lives merely because the strength of our belief in an illusory idea has granted us space to act forgivably unfulfilled!!!

Think about it!! Morrie wanted Mitch to think about it too, stating if he has ever asked, “Is today the day I die?”

An example fits very deeply at this juncture. One of my uncles was murdered by his colleagues. I was in 8th Grade at that time but if anybody met him prior to that, he was living a beautiful life with a calm, cheerful, loving wife and two children, and had only shifted to another city to invite more resources and ammmenities that would raise the comfort of his own life. Despite the calm drift of his new life, one where nobody suspected any bit of it would take a downturn, it was still tragically cut short. Unexpectedly! We could all die anytime! Like anytime!

The question to entertain here is, “What will become of this piece of life of ours when we finally exit?”

People, old friends mostly, I talk to wait not very long when brushed against the topic of ‘Death’ and it deeply amazes me (like it did earlier today) when they hush it aside as a thing that will come “someday” “when they age unto 70 or so.” Ah! How gullibly have they bought the arrival of “Death” as an endpoint they can plan against a self-planned timeline!!
How in God’s name do they really make so deceptive an assumption!!!

How?!


This truth sprouted like sparks flying into the air straight out of this book from the berth of the recent-realisations my contemplations have been dragging me towards for quite sometime! Death is so possible in the next 5 minutes that not considering that possibility, thus, forgetting making a life against that very understanding is already a monumental waste of a portion of our timeline, levied within the wasteful nature of which we forget to choose happiness over the stupidity of less exhilarating thoughts and emotions.

Tuesdays with Morrie beautifully aligns with the way I have been living my life these days:

These are the points I live by now, pretty much derivatives of the ones shared in the novel (which you really need to dig into to devour the full scope I have held back from my review) :

1. Getting someone to like you is too much of a wait for happiness to be had. So quit! ;)

2. Desiring validation is crazy because we are all different. How the hell can we expect then that everyone will come to side with us???

3. Spending time getting goofy

4. Spending loads of time lost in the beauty of understanding people, loving them for who they are, work, plants, gardens, home, cooking, writing.

5. Filtering away the nonsensical, goal-oriented mindset society steeped my mind with!

6. Losing myself in Krishna

7. Losing myself in the bliss of writing, caring not if it reached visible fruition or even completion for that matter, and cherishing every word arising out of God-knows-where (I honestly wonder where the hell creativity really stems from!!!! Don’t tell me it is brain! That’s a concept created by science. No truth in it!)

8. ”Life does not need to happen my way."

9. “Don't be fooled by your 8th-grade trophies."

10. “Failure is one of the most blissful places to be."

11. ”I have no interest in being a "Somebody."

12. “I prefer the obscurity."

13. “I avoid the limelight."

14. To repeat---"Nothing needs to happen my way.”

15. “Quit being in a hurry to finish.”

16. People are choosing being first all the time. I ask, “What is wrong with being second or tenth for that matter?” (These aren’t my lines by the way, so please don’t reserve praise for me)

Highly recommended, dear friends! :)
April 25,2025
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موری داستان هم درد استیون هاوکینگ را تحمل میکند و لحظه به لحظه به مرگ نزدیک میشود اما دیدگاه انسانیش به مرگ و وصیت هایی که برای میچ شاگرد قدیمی اش به جای میگذارد فوق العلاده ترین کلام هاست و باعث میشود در کنار تلخی مرگ آهسته اش , شیرینی دیدگاه انسانی و والای یک انسان مثل موری داستان , زیر دندان من خواننده بنشیند و حس کنم چقدر آدم های اینگونه را دوست دارم که تا آخرین لحظه ی عمر میجنگند تا افکار منفی و یاس و نا امیدی به انها غلبه نکند و با دستی پر و دلی پر مهر به مرحله ای دیگر از زندگی قدم بگذارند و این جهان و تن و گوشت و پوستشان را ترک کنند و شیرین بروند و مردمی را هم شیفته ی عقاید و کلام و نگاه شان به زندگی کنند , این کتاب را دوست داشتم چون پدر بزرگ خود من هم با وجود سرطانی که فلجش کرده بود و کاری کرده بود که دیگر نای حرکت نداشت به زندگی مثل موری این داستان از همین زاویه نگاه میکرد و وقتی روحش از بند تنش آزاد شد , اول گریه کردم بعد شاد بودم چون شادی روحش را احساس میکردم , نه تنها من بلکه تمام اطرافیانم هم همیشه میگویند که پدر بزرگم شاد و خوشبین از این دنیا رفت و مرد
بزرگی بود
...یادش گرامی


April 25,2025
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Thought provoking and uplifting. The author does a marvelous job of writing as well as reading. Audiobook includes some of his actual sound recordings with Morrie.
April 25,2025
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Soul touching. Aphorisms on top of aphorisms. One of those books that makes you appreciate life. Honestly everyone should pick this up.

“Dying is one thing to be sad over, living unhappily is something else”

Morrie, you’re the real MVP.
April 25,2025
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Morrie Schwartz quickly entered my heart and now I'm left bawling as though his loss is one I personally know of. What a wise, beautiful, loving soul. I feel so honoured to have read a small part of his story.
April 25,2025
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"سه شنبه ها با موری"، از تاثیر گذارترین و پر فروش ترین كتاب هاي نیویورک تایمز است که از اکتبر 1997 تا کنون همواره در صدر جدول پر فروش ترین هاي سال قرار داشته است.داستان واقعي مردي ٧٠ ساله به نام موري كه به بيماري سخت و لاعلاج اي ال اس مبتلا شده ( همون بيماري معروف استيون هاوكينگ) و پزشكان معتقدند كه بيش از ٢ سال از زندگي او نمانده است .اين پيرمرد دوست داشتني كه استاد جامعه شناسي است و در دانشگاه برانديس مشغول به تدريس بوده نظراتي جالب در مورد دنيا و مسائل مختلف به خصوص مرگ پيدا ميكند و تجربيات و دانسته هاي خود را با يكي از دانشجوهاي سابقش به نام ميچ طي ١٤ جلسه ملاقات در روزهاي سه شنبه در ميان ميگذارد . طي اين ديدارها مطالب خوبي رو بيان ميكنند و استاد موري اين مطالب را به گونه اي كه مخاطب را به فكر فرو ميبرد بيان ميكند و اين كه هر سه شنبه به يك سوژه خاص اختصاص دارد كتاب را جذاب تر هم كرده است و ما هركدام از انها را طي يك فصل از كتاب ميخوانيم . فصل هايي تحت عنوان : تاسف براي خود ، درباره خانواده ، درباره احساسات ، درباره پول ، ازدواج ، خوشبختي ، پيرشدن و ...
.داستان كتاب، پاياني تلخ اما زيبا و ماندگار دارد. پيشنهاد ميكنم نظرات و ديدگاه يك پيرمرد ٧٠ ساله و جامعه شناس رو درباره مسائل مختلف زندگي طي ١٧٤ صفحه بخونيد و استفاده كنيد .
14:51 96/8/8 يادگار محموديان
April 25,2025
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"I looked at him. I saw all the death in the world. I felt helpless."

This book broke me.
It was raw, thought provoking, heart breaking and real.
Such a simple concept, a young man caught up in his busyness and business, competing to be the best in his job finds out that his old college professor is sick. And so begins a tale of regular meetings between Mitch and his old professor - Morrie.
I know this book wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, but anything that makes me stop and think for a while and even tear up is what I love about reading.
As a memoir, you don't have to agree with everything they discuss, it's just beautiful to hear thoughts from someone facing the end and to be reminded of our own humanity and fleeting lives.
This book touched me, what else can I say?
April 25,2025
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If you are not reading the whole review just read the following para taken from the book. Trust me, it's worth a read!

"If ageing were so valuable, why do people always say, ‘Oh, if I were young again.’
You never hear people say, ‘Oh, I wish I were sixty-five.’He smiled.

‘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 want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until you’re sixty-five.'

‘How can I be envious of where you are – when I’ve been there myself?’"


The thing I found most beautiful about this book is the pure, warm relationship that is depicted between a teacher and a student. I call it pure because it is what a teacher-student relationship is supposed to be like, so comfortable that it becomes a friendship. One of the most important aspects of learning is listening, which also forms the basis of friendship.

My understanding of the book is divided into 3 lessons.

1. How to deal with self-pity?
2. Create our own culture
3. Love Wins, Love always wins

This book absolutely broke me, in the best way possible. I started it unsure, questioning whether its simplicity could really have much impact on me, but ended it with so much love and tears for what is such a brave and beautiful story. It is one of the greatest books of all time, I’m sure of it.I have become a fan of Mitch Albom's books ever since.

Can't recommend it enough.

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April 25,2025
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I have decided to delete this review. It was not my intention to upset anyone who either suffered from the disorder discussed in this book nor anyone related to such a person (See comment 270).

Nonetheless, I still believe this to be a particularly poorly written book that contains more saccharine than substance.

Still, if it brings you some sense of comfort - more strength to you.

I have chosen not to delete the comments thread as not all of the comments are mine to delete.
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