After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.
- Morrie Schwartz
Sympathy, Functions, Wept, Losses
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
Doing, Think, Chasing, Wrong Things
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
Look, Ourselves, Our, Individualize
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
- Morrie Schwartz
Psychology, Involved, Scales
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
Wait, Deal, Best Way, Compassionate
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
Cowboy, Other, Like, Mythical
Everything that gets born dies.
- Morrie Schwartz
Death, Born, Everything, 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
Little Things, Think, Big, Big Things
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
- Morrie Schwartz
Sympathy, Twice, Once, Grieve
One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.
- Morrie Schwartz
Alive, Here, Hundred, Ten
This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.
- Morrie Schwartz
Start, How, Get, Offering
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
- Morrie Schwartz
Forward, Want, Found, Meaning
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
Late, Want, Person, Ask
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
- Morrie Schwartz
Sad, Living, Over, Something
It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
- Morrie Schwartz
New, Too Late, Reconnect, Friendships
I'd always been interested in psychology.
- Morrie Schwartz
Always, Been, Interested, Psychology
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
- Morrie Schwartz
Going, Keep, Involved, Acts
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
- Morrie Schwartz
Die, Know, How, Learn
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
Love, Give, Learn
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