“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.” PeopleThinkingImportantSeemsWalksHalfInspirational LifeBusyMeaninglessLife LessonChasingWrong ThingsMeaninglessnessBusy LifeAging GracefullyMeaningless LifeMeaningless Things Author: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.” ThinkingLittlesI CanBigsValuesDetermineLittle ThingsBig ThingsThink Big Author:Morrie Schwartz
“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.” IfsThinkingMenSaidLove IsWiseDeserveRationalDeserve LoveMorrieTuesdays With Morrie Author:Morrie Schwartz
“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.” ThinkingHumansFactsBigsDiesNaturalOver It Author:Morrie Schwartz
“We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsImportantCountryFormKnow HowPerspectivePropertyAverageOur CountryBotherRepeatsDo You KnowMore MoneyAverage PersonBrainwashingCommercialismBrainwash Author:Morrie Schwartz
“The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.” ThinkingMenChildrenI CanAgeMy OwnWiseTruth IsDelightAppropriateOld ManFifty Year Olds Author:Morrie Schwartz
“My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.” ThinkingFeelsLongHas BeensFactsAbleLostConditionsHavensEmotionalHealthIllnessPsychologicalLimitationAshamedFacultyAlsIntuitiveContentionLost Yourself Book:Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man
