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Morrie Schwartz Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“...maybe that’s worse.
Not letting ourselves be loved because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie(Television Film)
Tagged: Love, Love & Happiness, Fear Of Love, Losing Someone
“Society teaches us to be number one, but who ever said there was something wrong with being number two?”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Inspirational, Life, The Universe
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Soft, Softness, Capitalism, Materialism
“Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Self Improvement
“Don't stay preoccupied with your body or your illness. Recognize that your body is not your total self, only part of it.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom from a Remarkable Man
Tagged: sickness, Aging, Disability
“When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom from a Remarkable Man
Tagged: Materialism, Capitalism
“You don't understand. You’re not a wave, you’re part of the ocean.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Inspirational, Life, The Universe
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Capitalism, Materialism
“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Death, Compassion
“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Ask for forgiveness from others. Forgiveness can soften the heart, drain the bitterness, and dissolve your guilt.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: forgiveness, Self Healing, Internalized Guilt, Moving Forward
“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Past, Learning, Moving Forward
“Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself:

All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: emotions, Empathy, Apathy, Fear
“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 of this, he has no perspective on what’s really important anymore.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Capitalism, Materialism
“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it… Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain, you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, ‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach myself from that emotion for a moment.’”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: emotions, Detachment, Indifference, Pain
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