Morrie Schwartz

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

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from family and friends, then you're going to suffer."

"We live as if we are never going to die. We die as if we never lived."

"Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it."

"Why are we embarrassed by silence, why do we all feel it's necessary to talk about bullshit in order to feel comfortable?"

"There is a part of my heart that will be always yours."

"A little bird lands on your shoulder and tells you that you're dying. What do you do?"

"Have you ever really listened to someone?"

"Accept what has happened in your life and don't try to push it away."

"You can't substitute material things for love or for tenderness."

"Don't assume, because you grow old, you also grow wise."

"The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

"Dying is only bad when you make it bad."

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

"Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community."

"I want to go when I want to go. Not when some tube tells me to."

"Some people are going to leave a mark on your life."

"It's impossible to live without some kind of structure."

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

"I'm being paid by Western Electric to die."

"You can't hang on to things. You have to let them go."

"In our culture, we don't acknowledge that we're dying."

"Somehow, catharsis has to happen when you're dying."

"We live in a world that teaches us to hate ourselves."

"Did I enjoy my ride on the planet? That's what matters."

"The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you know what the cure is? The same thing it always has been: it's love, and love is when you expose your true self to somebody else, and they do not run away."

"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, things that don't matter about the dead."

"There is no experience like having children. That's the best I can tell you."

"When you're in bed, you're dead anyway. It's a good way to think about it."

"All this emphasis on youth - I don't buy it."