"The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back."
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
"The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"The most important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"The culture we have not made people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it."
"As long as we can love each other and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away."
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
"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."
"Love is the only rational act."
"The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of -unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough."
"Accept who you are; and revel in it."
"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."
"Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you."
"Devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
"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"; "Don't assume that it is too late to get involved."
"Dying," Morrie suddenly said. Is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy." Why? "Well, for one thing, the culture we do not, make people feel good about themselves, We're teaching. The wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me even in my current condition.”
"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.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love. And to let it come in.?' His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in, We think we don't deserve love. We think if we let it, we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act"
"We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."
"Love each other or perish."
“Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.”
"It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you do know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it."
"Yes, I said, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, "Oh, if I were young again." You never hear people say, "I wish I were sixty-five." He smiled. "You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. If you want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five."
"Listen. You should know something. All younger people should know something. If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”
“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for, tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. "Money is not a substitute for tenderness and power."
“There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae.“
"The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction?" What? "Offering others what you have to give." You sound like a Boy Scout. "I don't mean money, Mitch. I mean your time. Your concern. Your storytelling.“
"Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote Yourself to loving others. Devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
"Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, and you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.”
“Part of the problem. Mitch, is that everyone is in such a hurry." Morrie said. "People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it.“
"Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”
“There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness.“
"It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch." he finally whispered. We also need to forgive ourselves."