Morrie Schwartz Quotes

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

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• Dying is only one thing to be sad over… Living unhappily is something else.

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• Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

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• Everything that gets born dies.

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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

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• 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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• I’d always been interested in psychology.

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• Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

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

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Morrie Schwartz (18)

Birth:	20th December, 1916
Death:	4th November, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor

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