When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Love wins, love always wins.

Every life has one true love snapshot.

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.

She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

Man invents nothing God did not create first.

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.

What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

..And because he was still able to move his hands - Morrie always spoke with both hands waving - he showed great passion when explaining how you face the end of life.

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.

What is false about hope?

Hopelessness can be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.

Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might have to make room for some more spiritual things.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?"-Morrie

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself.

Death ends a life, but not a relationship.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

People have't found meaning in their lives so they're running all the time looking for it.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.

We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.

If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.

Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.

He looked at his own arms and realized, in his earthly body, he was now older than his father. He had outlived him in every way.

Finish your journey and you will know.