Morrie Schwartz
Morrie Schwartz
Morris "Morrie" S. Schwartzwas a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. He was the subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie, which was written by Mitch Albom, a sportswriter who was a former student of his, and published in 1997. The book was followed by a film version based on the book that was made for television...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 December 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Morrie Schwartz quotes about
Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.
I'd always been interested in psychology.
What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.
When you learn to die, you learn to live.
Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did we would do things differently. 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?
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.
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?
My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.