Morrie Schwartz Quotes

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

It is always good to make new friends.

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

I just like people. We have a good time together.

Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

So, how did you all meet?

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Remember, 'No one's more important than people'! In other words, friendship is the most important thing--not career or housework, or one's fatigue--and it needs to be tended and nurtured.

She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.