When Morrie was with you, he was really with you. He looked you straight in the eye, and he listened as if you were the only person in the world.
When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad, it's as close to healthy as I ever feel.Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won't be dissa...
What would you give to remember everything? I have this power. I absorb your memories; when you hear me, you relive them. A first dance. A wedding. The song that played when you got the big news. No o...
We do not realize the sound the world makes - unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.
Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself t...
This is your house, Reb. You are in the rafters, the floorboards, the walls, the lights. You are in every echo through every hallway. We hear you now. I hear you still. How can I—how can any of us—let...
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't k...
They were there, or would be there, because of the simple, mundane things Eddie had done in his life, the accidents he had prevented, the rides he had kept safe, the unnoticed turns he had affected ev...
They just looked at his past. And when we’re still looking at ourselves through our past, we’re not seeing what God has done. What He can do! We’re not seeing the little things that happen in our live...
There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things -he sighed- these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz
There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In busines...
There is life after this life.
There is a reason God limits man's days.
The story of my recent life. I like that phrase.It makes more sense than the story of my life, because we get so many lives between birth and death.A life to be a child. A life to come of age.A life t...
That's who I want to be when I grow up.
That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.