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

- Morrie Schwartz

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

- Morrie Schwartz

I'd always been interested in psychology.

- Morrie Schwartz

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

- Morrie Schwartz

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

- Morrie Schwartz

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Morrie Schwartz

Everything that gets born dies.

- Morrie Schwartz

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

- 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

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

- Morrie Schwartz

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

- Morrie Schwartz