Morrie Schwartz Quotes

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• Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
• These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But…
• Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people…
• Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.
• The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't…
• Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you,…
• Build a little community of those you love and who love you
• People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our…
• If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
• There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and…
• 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.
• All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
• The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
• What's wrong with being number two?
• It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to…
• Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
• Everything that gets born dies.
• The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in…
• We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
• I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

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