Best Morrie Schwartz Quotes
- Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference… Acceptance
- Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. Believe
- And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day… Addition
- All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know… Afraid
- One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive. Alive
- We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. Acts
- So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because… Aging Gracefully
- The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't… Any
- When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions. Absurd
- After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left. Cherish
- What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. Inspirational
- The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to… Best
- It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. Develop
- We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without… Able
- Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again. Grieve
- I'd always been interested in psychology. Been
- Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Forgive
- 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… All
- The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do… Band
- Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another Big
- We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it… Act
- Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing… Comes Back
- Once you learn how to die you learn how to live Die
- What is it about silence that makes people uneasy? Inspirational
- For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them.… Emotion