"Well, the truth is, if you really listen……" — Morrie Schwartz
"Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are."
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62 Quotes by Morrie Schwartz
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Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for…
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These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a…
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
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Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much…
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The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to…
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Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to…
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Build a little community of those you love and who love you
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People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people…
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If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
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There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and…
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If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t…
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All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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