Quotes by Morrie Schwartz.

About Morrie Schwartz.:

Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie, which was published in 1997 and later made into a film.
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Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Morrie Schwartz

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

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

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I'd always been interested in psychology.

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

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

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

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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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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.

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

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If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

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Death ends a life, not a relationship. 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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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.

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

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Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. 2. Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others. 3. Death ends a life, not a relationship. 4. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. 5. Somet...

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Author Bio

  • NameMorrie Schwartz
  • Descriptionsociology professor
  • BornDecember 20, 1916
  • DiedNovember 4, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Sociologist