Morrie Schwartz

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I'd always been interested in psychology.”

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

“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Everything that gets born dies.”

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

“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.”

“When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.”