Quotes About Humanity

Love each other or die.

and the anchor asked if my old professor had anything he wanted to say to the millions of people he had touched. Although he did not mean it this way, I couldn't help but think of a condemned man being asked for his final words. "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.

In light of this, my visits with Morrie felt like a cleansing rinse of human kindness. We talked about life and we talked about love. We talked about one of Morrie's favourite subjects, compassion and why our society had such a shortage of it.

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.

Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks. Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about the family the way we care about our own.

death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Have you found someone to share your heart with?" he asked. "Are you giving to your community? "Are you at peace with yourself? "Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.' 

Giving is living.

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

giving to other people is what makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.' 

this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Be compassionate. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place. Love each other or die. -Morrie Schwartz

Why suffer in front of so many people?

We think because we're human we're somethin above nature...we are not. Everything that gets born, dies.

diferentes podemos ser? »Invierte en la familia humana. Invierte en las personas. Construye una pequeña comunidad con los que amas y con los que te aman.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Love is the only rational act.

Man's instinct is to find a way to live, but who wants to be the last to die?

It's natural to die," he said again. "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." He smiled at the plant. "We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.

Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul.

Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand—even in dreams. Just

War is the same every when and where.