Top 45 Quotes About Morrie Schwartz
#2. 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
#3. Dying is only one thing to be sad over ... Living unhappily is something else.
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#4. If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.
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#5. I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.
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#6. Build a little community of those you love and who love you
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#7. It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
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#9. This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
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#10. 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
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#11. 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.
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#12. What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
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#13. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. 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
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#20. If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
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#22. 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.
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#23. One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
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#24. When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
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#25. 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.
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#28. Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
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#29. Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
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#30. Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
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#32. 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 ...
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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
#36. Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.
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#37. 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
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#38. We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
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#41. Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.
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#42. How useful it would be to put a daily limit on self pity. Just a few tearful minutes, then on with the day.
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#43. 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.
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#44. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
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#45. After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
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