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It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.
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Morrie Schwartz
Age: 78 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 20
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
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New York City
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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.
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Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
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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.
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Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.
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Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
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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
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Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.
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When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
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And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.
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Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
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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.
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Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another
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Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.
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