Quotes from Morrie Schwartz

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

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.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Man will be the death of life yet.

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

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in

Without love, we are birds with broken wings.

Sometimes you meet somebody and you know that whatever you did before, it must have been right.... nothing could've been too bad or gone too wrong because it led you to this person.

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. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Everything that gets born dies.

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.

Death ends life not a relationship

People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.

Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.

Morrie: And the biggest one of those values, Mitch? Mitch: Yes? Morrie: Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

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

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.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Reminisce about it, but don't live in it. Learn from it, but don't punish yourself about it or continually regret it. Don't get stuck in it.

When people die, you always hear the expression, "You can't take it with you.

In the beginning of life, we need others to survive. At the end of life, we need others to survive. In between, we need others as well.