Iiiih.....telaaat banggeeet yaaa....secara ini buku first published-nya tahun 1997 kalo gak salah.
Sebenernya udah pernah beli buku versi bahasa Indonesia-nya tahun 2007 lalu, tapi itu buku raib dipinjam temen sebelum saya pernah membacanya hehehehee...
Okeh, dalam tulisan ini saya murni mau menuliskan kembali quotes dari buku itu, yang hampir seluruhnya berasal dari Mr. Morrie Schwartz. Sebelumnya, sedikit penjelasan bahwa Mr. Morrie Schwartz adalah dosen dari si penulis (Mitch Albom) yang menderita penyakit ALS (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis), sebuah penyakit yang menyerang sistem saraf. Di hari-hari terakhir Mr. Morrie, si penulis kerap bertemu dengannya--his legendary coach--di hari Selasa untuk diskusi atau mendengarkan sharing dari Mr. Morrie ini tentang hidup dan kehidupan.
Kenapa juga saya tuliskan lagi beberapa quotes yang menarik buat saya di blog ini, tujuannya ya biar saya bisa baca lagi beberapa quotes yang menginspirasi saya (soalnya buku yang baru aja selesai saya baca itu bukan punya saya dan udah dikembalikan heheheheee.....) dan biar kalo anak-anak udah pada gede nanti, bisa ikutan baca juga dan hopefully bisa jadi bahan diskusi sama mereka.
Here goes several Quotes that I love :
·
Learn how
to die, and you learn how to live
When you realize
you are going to die, you see everything much differently #aboutDEATH
·
“Living means
I can be responsive to the other person.
It means I can
show my emotions and my feelings
Talk to them,
feel with them..”
·
There’s no
experience like having children
There’s no substitute
for it
You cannot do it
with a friend
You cannot do it
with a lover
If you want the
experience of having complete responsibility for another human being,
And learn how to
love and bond in the deepest way,
Then you should
have children #about FAMILY
·
This is
part of what family is about, not just love…
But letting
others know there’s someone who is watching out for them
Nothing else
will give you that.
Not Money. Not
Fame. #about FAMILY
·
There is
no formula to relationship.
They have to be
negotiated in loving ways,
with room for both
parties,
what they want
and what they need,
what they can do
and what their life is like
·
Wherever I
went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new.
These people
were so hungry for love that they were accepting substitute material things for
love.
They were
embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back.
But it never
works.
You can’t
substitute material things for love
or for
gentleness…
or for
tenderness…
or for a sense
of comradeship..
Money is not a
substitute for tenderness…
Power is not a
substitute for tenderness.. #aboutMONEY
·
If you are
trying to show off for people at the top, FORGET IT
They will look
down at 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 #aboutMONEY
·
Do the
kinds of things that come from the heart
When you do, you
won’t be dissatisfied
You won’t be
envious
You won’t be
longing for somebody else’s things..
On the contrary,
you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back #aboutMONEY
·
“I believe
in being fully present.
That means you
should be with the person you’re with
When I’m talking
to you, I try to keep focused only on what is going between us
I’m not thinking
about last week, what’s coming up, or anything else
I am talking to
you. I am thinking of you.” #HowLoveGoesOn
·
“…Part of
the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry
People haven’t found
meaning in their lives
So they’re
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…” #HowLoveGoesOn
·
“….I’ve
learned this much about marriage
You get tested.
You find out who
you are
Who the other person
is
And how you accommodate
or don’t..” #aboutMARRIAGE
·
There are
few rules I know to be true about love & marriage :
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
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 these values is BELIEF IN THE IMPORTANCE OF
YOUR MARRIAGE #aboutMARRIAGE
·
“…It is
sad, because a loved one is so important
You realize
that, especially when you’re not doing so well
Friends are
great, but they’re not going to be here on a night,
When you’re
coughing and can’t sleep.
And someone has
to sit up all night with you, comfort you, try to be helpful..” #aboutMARRIAGE
·
Every
society has its own problem.
The way to do
it, I think, isn’t to run away
You have to work
at creating your own culture
#OurCulture
·
Here what I
meant by building your own little subculture
I don’t mean you
disregard every rule of your community
The little
things, I can obey
But the Big
Things—how we think, what we value
Those you must
choose yourself
You can’t let
anyone—or any society—determine for you
It’s the same
for women not being thin enough,
Or men not being
rich enough
It’s just our
culture would have you believe
Don’t believe it #OurCulture
·
No matter
where you live, the biggest defect we, human beings, have is SHOTSIGHTEDNESS
We don’t see
what we could be
We should be
looking at our potential
Stretching ourselves
into everything we can become #OurCulture
·
People are
only mean when they’re threatened
And when you get
threatened, you start looking out only for yourself
You
start making money a God #OurCulture
