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The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
Morrie Schwartz
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Morrie Schwartz
Age: 78 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 20
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
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Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.
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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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All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
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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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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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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.
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
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There is no experience like having children...If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.
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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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