"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."(Pg.91) Morrie stress the importance of family to Mitch. Without having a strong bond with your family you do not have the support you need to go through a good

"I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."(Pg.33) Mitch had dreams of going to Paris and into the mountains of Tibet but he wasted precious time on trying to achieve fame and more money. Morrie teaches Mitch that if you need money to be happy you are not happy at all. "Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness."(pg.125) People are so eager for love that they accept substitutes. No matter how much money or power you have it will never substitute for the feeling of love.

life. Morrie lying on his deathbed is certain that if he had no family his disease would be so much harder to go thorough. "I'm not sure I could do it."(Pg.92) "So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They

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