Tuesday With Morrie

The Last Lesson. The Most Important One.

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is one of the most beloved memoirs ever written — a true story of friendship, wisdom, and the profound lessons that can only be learned when time is running out.

When sports journalist Mitch Albom reconnects with his favourite university professor, Morrie Schwartz, he discovers that Morrie is dying of ALS. What follows is a series of Tuesday visits that become the most important education of Mitch's life — and, for millions of readers, their own.

Eight Points of Meaning

• True Story — a real friendship, real conversations, and real wisdom shared in the final months of a remarkable life
• Life's Greatest Lessons — Morrie's teachings on love, work, family, ageing, forgiveness, and death
• Presence — a book that reminds you to be here, now, with the people who matter most
• Courage — Morrie's extraordinary grace in the face of terminal illness
• Simplicity — the things that matter most are rarely the things we spend most of our time on
• Connection — the irreplaceable value of a mentor, a teacher, a friend who truly sees you
• Legacy — what we leave behind is not what we owned, but how we loved
• Humanity — a book that makes you feel more alive simply by reading it

Eight Spiritual Teachings

• Death is not the enemy — living without fully living is
• Love is the only rational act
• The culture we live in does not always make us wise; choose your own values carefully
• Forgive yourself before you forgive others — it is the harder and more necessary work
• Ageing is not decay; it is growth, if you allow it to be
• Give to others what you wish you had received; it is never too late
• Detachment is not indifference — it is the ability to experience fully without being consumed
• When you learn how to die, you learn how to live

A book that has sold over fourteen million copies worldwide — and quietly changed the way its readers choose to spend their days.