Morrie Schwartz Aphorisms
“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.”
“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.”
“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.”
“You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
“Love is the only rational act.”
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish.’“
“Accept who you are and revel in that.”
“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.”
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.”
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
“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.”
“We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.”
“Be compassionate and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.”
“You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened…you need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.”
“You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.”
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
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