All younger people should know something. If youโre always battling against getting older, youโre always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
Morrie SchwartzItโs natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we donโt see ourselves as part of nature. We think because weโre human weโre something above nature.
Morrie SchwartzSo many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.
Morrie SchwartzWe've got a form of brainwashing going on in our countryโฆ. 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 is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Morrie Schwartz