Morrie Schwartz

"Dependency is not something to be ashamed of."

"Let yourself be loved. That is the most important thing."

"I want to die while I'm still living."

"You have to find meaning in what you do. That's what I tell young people."

"There is no formula. The only way to know is to sit with me a while."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the answer is? The answer is obvious to me. We need a little green man to come down and say 'You know what? You're all okay.' But that's not going to happen."

"When you go to work, you are really saying, 'I don't know what to do with my life.'"

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

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, they don't matter. We keep asking 'when's this going to end? When am I going to be successful? When is this thing going to happen?'"

"If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They're on the same level as you."

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

"Don't let yourself get lost in a sea of despair and forget that you still have the possibility of hope."

"Forgive yourself before you die."

"What is it you're so busy doing that you can't sit down and talk to me?"

"The problem is, Mitch, we don't believe we are going to die."

"You struggle with the universal human problems, one of them being that we are born alone and we die alone."

"There is no experience like having cancer."

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

"I don't think I miss my youth as much as I miss the idea that I could do anything with my youth."

"So it's not just other people I have accepted. I have accepted myself."

"You know what? Maybe it's not just time. Maybe it's also character. Without character, time is meaningless."

"We live in a world where we are happy in spite of our circumstances, not because of them."

"I have all the money I need in the heaven and my money in my heart."

"Did you love? Did you find some people to love and who loved you back? Did you make a decent living where you weren't struggling day to day?"

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

"I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of not doing what I've come here to do."

"When you go to work, you are saying your life is more important than the life around you."

"I'm concentrating on living. And that's what I advise you to do."

"We have a spiritual need that's not being filled, and we throw money at it."

"If you hold back on the emotions, if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them, you get stuck."