Morrie Schwartz

"It's not just time. It's energy. Energy is time. We use our time to give energy to things."

"You can't substitute material goods for human worth."

"The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others."

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

"I'm not going to play the victim. I'm not going to say why me?"

"When you're facing death, people listen instead of just waiting for their turn to talk."

"Invest in the human beings around you. That is your best investment."

"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They're all looking to move up."

"The tension between what we're supposed to want and what we actually want creates a suffering."

"Illness has made me more intense. It's like a concentration."

"I believe in being fully present with people. That's love."

"You need someone to validate you. It's part of being human."

"The little things I can do now are the most important things I have ever done."

"I don't allow myself to have hatred. It's too big a burden to carry."

"You can't just say that everything is the same. You've got to distinguish between things."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."

"Detach yourself. It's very simple. You detach yourself from the wish that others make the right choices."

"When you're in bed for twenty-three and a half hours, you think a lot."

"Build a little community of those you love and who love you."

"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life."

"I want to die in a way that is meaningful."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life."

"The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're dead."

"You know what? Now I listen to much more serious things."

"Mitch, have you found someone to share your heart with?"

"The fact that I can still do these things is a blessing."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, you don't think about how you're going to die."

"I'm not afraid. I'm ready."

"The truth is you don't know how much time you have."