Morrie Schwartz Quotes - Page 2

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• Build a little community of those you love and who love you

  Morrie Schwartz

  Love You, Community, Littles

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• All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feelings

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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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  Believe, Mean, Should

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Thinking

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.

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  Struggle, Wrestling, Fighting

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• Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Trust, Believe, Fall

  "Fictional character: Morrie Schwartz". "Tuesdays with Morrie", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

  Morrie Schwartz

  People, Silence, Uneasy

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Morrie Schwartz, 1997.

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• We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Disillusioned, Wrong Things, Values

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• Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Love, You Live You Learn, Meaningful Death

  "The Unfinished Symphony", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• It’s natural to die. 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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Thinking, Facts, Natural

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• When you learn to die, you learn to live.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Being Happy, Dies

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Mean, Feelings, Emotion

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• If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Feelings, Going Away, Remember

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Health, Emotional, Thinking

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Acceptance is not a talent you either have or don't have. It's a learned response. My meditation teacher made a great point about the difference between a reaction and a response: You may not have control over your initial reaction to something, but you can decide what your response will be. You don't have to be at the mercy of your emotions, and acceptance can be your first step toward empowerment . . . For me, acceptance has been the cornerstone to my having an emotionally healthy response to my illness.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Teacher, Acceptance, Differences

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Bird, Ambitious, Might

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational, People, Giving

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Wise, Children, Men

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Reality, Waiting, Way To Live

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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

  Morrie Schwartz

  Trying, Humans

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• Everything that gets born dies.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Death, Born, Dies

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Beautiful, Wise, Sexy

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• The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Hurt, Tuesdays With Morrie, Opposites

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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.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Running, Helping Others, Night

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• There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Children, Responsibility, Should Have

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