Quotes from Morrie Schwartz

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

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 they're chasing the wrong things.

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.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

Everything that gets born dies.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?

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 …

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.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

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.

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

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.

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.

Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

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