A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner.Mom,guess what ? she squealed waving the drawing .her mother...

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter...

We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.

You had many more years, he said.I didn't want them.But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be an answer toyour prayer. To deny that is to deny the most...

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

There's a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need," Morrie said. "You need food, you want a chocolate sundae. You have to be honest with yourself. You don't need the latest...

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert.I believe...

Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

But fates are connected in ways we don't understand.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's...

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

I am in love with Hope.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Secrets tear you apart.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness?I believe so, he saidAre you going to tell me?Yes.Ready?Ready.Be satisfied.That's it?Be greatful.That's it?For what you have.For the love you receive.And for...

I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.