Morrie Schwartz Quotes


"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Life)

"Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Life, Meaning, Want)

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Life, Love)

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Dying, Living)

"Everything that gets born dies."
- Morrie Schwartz
"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
(Related: Society, Value)

"One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Now, Will, Years)

"Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again."
- Morrie Schwartz
"I'd always been interested in psychology."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Psychology)

"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
(Related: Want)

"It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: People)

"Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live."
- Morrie Schwartz
"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
(Related: Life, People, Wrong)

"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
(Related: People, Sense, World)

"We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going."
- Morrie Schwartz
"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
- Morrie Schwartz
(Related: Psychology)

"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
(Related: Possessions)