Top 54 Morrie Schwartz Quotes About Life (DEATH)

Top 10 Most Famous Morrie Schwartz Quotes (BEST)

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

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. — Sometimes you cannot **believe** what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

The truth is... once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. — The **truth** is… once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

“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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Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent. — Don’t cling to things because everything is impermanent.

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. — 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.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place. — Be **compassionate**, and take **responsibility** for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

8 Morrie Schwartz Quotes About Death

“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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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another. — Maybe **death** is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

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

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. — 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.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

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

13 DeepMorrie Schwartz Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“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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You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean. — You don’t understand. You’re not a wave. You’re part of the ocean.

“As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, its also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

Society teaches us to be number one, but who ever said there was something wrong with being number two?

“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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Don’t let go too soon, but don’t hold on too long.

“Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
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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.

“If you hold back on the emotions–if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them–you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. — **Money** is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

“If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”
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What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

8 InspiringMorrie Schwartz Quotes About Life

“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.”
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Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be. — Although you may be old or sick, it’s not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

“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 are in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
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Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

“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. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
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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. — Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

“In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here’s the secret, in between, we need others as well.”
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Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself that I WILL.

7 Morrie Schwartz Quotes on Love and Relationships

“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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If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. — If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a **family**, you don’t have much at all.

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…

“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. — It’s not too late to develop new **friendships** or reconnect with people.

“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works.”
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Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. — **Love** is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

8 WiseMorrie Schwartz Quotes to Live By

“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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