Morrie Schwarz
Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
Love is the only rational act.
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Be Here Now.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
May you live all the days of your life.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
This is this.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The heart does not respond to principles and programs, it seeks not efficiency, but passion.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
First rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight Club.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
My friends are my estate.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Time is the great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of it's students.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Seize the day.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
It ain't over till it's over.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.
A heart as soft, a heart as kind, a heart as sound and free as in the whole world thou canst find that heart I'll give to thee.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
I see dead people.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Kindness is always fashionable.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool !
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns !
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Do, or do not. There is no try.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Did my heart love'til now ? Foreswear its sight, for I never saw true beauty'til this night.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.