If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.


Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (ed. Broadway Books, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307414090

Mitch Albom Quotes

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy...

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy...

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy...

If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy...