Morrie Schwartz Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.”
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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
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“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”
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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 culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.”
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“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.”
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“Once you learn how to die you learn how to live”
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“As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on—in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here”
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“Build a little community of those you love and who love you”
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“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.”
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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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“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 …”
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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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“Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.”
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“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.”
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“It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.”
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“Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.”
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“The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”
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“Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.”
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“Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more 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.”
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“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
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“I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.”
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“We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.”
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“Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.”
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“When you learn to die, you learn to live.”
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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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“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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