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The culture doesn’t encourage you to think about such things until you’re about to die. We’re so wrapped up with egostical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks. We’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

We think we don’t deserve love, we think if we let it in we’ll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said.” Love is the only rational act.

Resist the temptation to think of yourself as useless. It will only lead to depression.

The best preparation for living fully and well is to be prepared to die at any time, because impending death inspires clarity of purpose, a homing in on what really matters to you.

You don’t have to be nice all the time – just most of the time.

If we can make peace with dying, we can finally make peace with living.

When people die, you always hear the expression, “You can’t take it with you.

You can find joy in practically any situation if you are open to the experience of happiness.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you’d always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until you’re sixty-five.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

We’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.

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.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Reminisce about it, but don’t live in it. Learn from it, but don’t punish yourself about it or continually regret it. Don’t get stuck in it.

Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.

I’d always been interested in psychology.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see. You have to believe what you feel.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

If the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here’s the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.

Everything that gets born dies.

It’s not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

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

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I’m not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I’m going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I’m going to experience them as well.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too – even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family.

Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes 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. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on – in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn’t work, don’t buy it.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overhelmed with what comes back.

What’s wrong with being number two?

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

You don’t understand. You’re not a wave. You’re part of the ocean.

Ocean Quotes

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

Caring Quotes

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

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

Morrie: In His Own Words Quotes

Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.

Morrie: In His Own Words Quotes

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