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...
But I do know we’re deficient in some way. 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 gr...
There was no one she wanted to see more. There was no one she wanted to see less. Why? she whispered. Why are you here?The winds blew, he said.
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
No matter how smart she appeared, she wasfragile at her core.
Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.
I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it
Do not cry over losing blood. Not for something you love.
When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete re...
The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
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 know. It’s growth. It’s more than the ne...
I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.
I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.
He found himself thinking about his childhood.Why do you drink so much, Maestro?This is not a music question.Are you sad, Maestro?Again, not a music question.I am sad sometimes, Maestro.Practice more....
I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have to...
Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I wo...
Things change when you're not in danger anymore.