How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on—in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here." (24.28)
There's something permanent about what we do here on earth. Our good actions can live forever, in the way that an eternal soul can. Our memory also lives on, in those lives that we touch while we are living.
Quote #8
And which are the important questions?
"As I see it, they have to do with love, responsibility, spirituality, awareness. And if I were healthy today, those would still be my issues. They should have been all along." (24.36-37)
Here, the topic of spirituality is listed as a set of priorities. Maybe Morrie is saying that although he values spirituality, he puts it on the same level as other things, like being mindful of the world around us.
Quote #9
"The first wave says, 'You don't understand! We're all going to crash! All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't it terrible?'"
"The second wave says, 'No, you don't understand. You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'"
I smile. Morrie closes his eyes again.
"Part of the ocean," he says, "part of the ocean." I watched him breathe, in and out, in and out. (24.68-71)
This little anecdote that Morrie and Mitch are sharing isn't explicitly spiritual, but it has spiritual connotations. Just like waves that are part of the great big ocean, the story is suggesting that we're all part of something bigger than ourselves.