Tuesdays with Morrie is a bestselling non-fiction book by American writer Mitch Albom, published in 1997 (ISBN 0-385-48451-8). The story was later adapted by Thomas Rickman into a television movie (directed by Mick Jackson), which aired on 5 December 1999 and starred Hank Azaria as Mitch and Jack Lemmon (in his final role) as Morrie. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 417 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (487 × 700 pixels, file size: 76 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) tuesdays with Morrie book cover Author: Mitch Albom Publisher: Doubleday Rational: To use in the article about the book of the same name: Tuesdays with Morrie... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... // Random House is a publishing house based in New York City. ... Hardcover books A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... ISBN redirects here. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Mick Jackson (born 4 October 1943) is a British television and film director from England, also a television producer and author. ... is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States) is an American actor, director, comedian and voice artist. ... John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor and comedian. ...

It is the true story of Morrie Schwartz and his relationship with student Mitch Albom. Both the film and the book chronicle the lessons about life that Mitch learns from his professor, who is dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. Professor Morris Morrie Schwartz, BA, MA, Ph. ... Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrigs Disease, Maladie de Charcot or motor neurone disease) is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement. ... Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. ...

After five years in hardcover, it was released as a trade paperback in October 2002. It was re-released as a mass-market paperback by Anchor Books in January 2006. According to this edition, 11 million copies of Tuesdays with Morrie are in print worldwide.

Quotes

• "Death ends a life, not a relationship."

• "Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling."

• "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

• "So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

• "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

• "Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."

• "Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."

• "As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. "

• "Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

• "Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. "

• "God is absence. God is the solitude of man."

• "Hell is other people"

• "Torah im Derech Eretz"

See also

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven - also by Mitch Albom
• For One More Day - also by Mitch Albom

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External links

• Tuesdays with Morrie at the Internet Movie Database
• Tuesdays with Morrie publication history at the Internet Book List
• Tuesdays with Morrie.com - Official website
• Summary and analysis of Tuesdays with Morrie at Sparknotes