Top 76 Morrie Quotes
#1. I dropped my eyes, kneading the dying flesh of his feet between my fingers. For a moment, I felt afraid, as if accepting his words would somehow betray my own father. But when I looked up, I saw Morrie smiling through tears and I knew there was no betrayal in a moment like this. All
Mitch Albom
#2. Morrie," Koppel said, "that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?"
"You bet," Morrie whispered.
Mitch Albom
#3. Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my own life. I was busy.
Mitch Albom
#4. Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place."
He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.
Mitch Albom
#5. This was a smokescreen. Morrie made that obvious. Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
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#6. I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.
Mitch Albom
#7. Still what I miss most, simple and maybe selfish as it sounds, is the twinkle in Morrie's eyes when I came in the room. But When someone is happy-genuninely happy-to see you, it melts you from the start. It is like going home.
Mitch Albom
#8. People often ask what I miss about Morrie. I miss that belief in humanity. I miss the eyes that could view life so encouragingly. And I miss his laugh. I really do.
Mitch Albom
#9. My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie" category.
Alissa Nutting
#10. With pictures of Patsy, Morrie, and the three
Stephen King
#11. Every society has its own problems," Morrie said, lifting his eyebrows, the closest he could come to a shrug. "The way to do it, I think, isn't to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
Mitch Albom
#13. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty. But then, he didn't worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.
Mitch Albom
#14. How did you know about the pool?" I asked my mother. "Colt told Morrie, Morrie told Jack, Jack told me," Mom answered. Next time I ran away from home, I was going to a big city. The biggest. In China. Where not only were there billions of people, I didn't speak their language and they had good food.
Kristen Ashley
#15. The trouble was, all their eyes came to me when I opened the door and Morrie grinned a my-girl's-gonna-get-herself-some grin. Colt looked like he wanted someone to tear his own fingernails out by the roots. And Cal looked like he was having trouble not busting a gut laughing.
Kristen Ashley
#16. It's a wedding reception, Morrie, not a fuckin' '80s flashback.
Kristen Ashley
#17. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz
Mitch Albom
#18. Finally, on the fourth of November, when those he loved had left the room just for a moment - to grab coffee in the kitchen, the first time none of them were with him since the coma began - Morrie stopped breathing.
Mitch Albom
#19. Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
Mitch Albom
#20. We're Tuesday people, he said. Tuesday people, I repeated. Morrie smiled.
Mitch Albom
#21. Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale with memorable characters and filled it with the abundant warmth and wisdom that we've come to expect from this gifted storyteller.
John Burnham Schwartz
#22. In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did?
Mitch Albom
#23. I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.
Morrie Brickman
#25. Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.
Morrie Schwartz.
#26. What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
Morrie Schwartz.
#27. The elks live up in the hills and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come down to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find that it's only a water hole. What they're looking for is elk-ohole.
Morrie Ryskind
#28. The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz.
#29. Say, the next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you, will you?
Morrie Ryskind
#30. 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 work, don't buy it
Morrie Schwartz.
#31. This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
Morrie Schwartz.
#32. Ever since I've met you, I've swept you off my feet.
Morrie Ryskind
#34. Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.
Mitch Albom
#35. If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.
Morrie Schwartz.
#36. It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
Morrie Schwartz.
#37. I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.
Morrie Schwartz.
#38. The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
Morrie Brickman
#39. 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
Morrie Schwartz.
#41. Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.
Morrie Ryskind
#42. We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.
Morrie Camhi
#43. 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 be.
Morrie Schwartz.
#44. 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 right. He said. Love is the only rational act.
Morrie Schwartz.
#46. If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz.
#48. It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.
Morrie Schwartz.
#49. One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
Morrie Schwartz.
#50. When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie Schwartz.
#51. On this site we're going to build an Eye and Ear Hospital. This is going to be a sight for sore eyes.
Morrie Ryskind
#52. 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.
Morrie Schwartz.
#55. Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Morrie Schwartz.
#56. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
Morrie Schwartz.
#57. Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#59. 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. Feel with them ...
Morrie Schwartz.
#60. Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
Mitch Albom
#61. We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?
Mitch Albom
#63. 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 recognize that this is the only way to live.
Morrie Schwartz.
#64. Build a little community of those you love and who love you
Morrie Schwartz.
#65. Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.
Morrie Schwartz.
#66. 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 for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
Morrie Schwartz.
#67. We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
Morrie Schwartz.
#68. 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 the need for other people.
Morrie Schwartz.
#69. Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz.
#70. Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.
Morrie Schwartz.
#71. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
Morrie Schwartz.
#72. 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 that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.
Morrie Schwartz.
#73. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
Morrie Schwartz.
#74. After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
Morrie Schwartz.
#75. Dying is only one thing to be sad over ... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz.
#76. I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.
Morrie Schwartz.
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