Morrie Schwartz Quotes

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Life, Important, Busy

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Yourself, Person, Ask

Everything that gets born dies.
Morrie Schwartz

Death, Born, Dies

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Society, Yourself, Big

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Morrie Schwartz

Sad, Living, Else

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

Life, Love, Important

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

Live, Die, Learn

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz

Life, Forward, Found

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

Life, After, Left

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

Ourselves, Absurd, Fences

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Best, Live, Wait

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

Yourself, Again, Once

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

Late, Develop, Reconnect

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

Here, Alive, Ten

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

Working, Involved, Psychology

I'd always been interested in psychology.
Morrie Schwartz

Interested, Psychology

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

Keep, Involved, Acts

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.
Morrie Schwartz

Live, Sense, Able

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 20, 1916

Died: November 4, 1995

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