Morrie Schwartz

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.

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

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

Once you learn how to diw, you learn how to live

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.

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 _

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__e too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else__ situation as you are about your own.

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. 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.6. 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Everything that gets born dies.

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

Love is how you stay alive even after you are gone.

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

It__ natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don__ see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we__e human we__e something above nature.