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.
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 SchwartzThe little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.
Morrie SchwartzThe fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.
Morrie Schwartz