Morrie Schwartz Quotes

It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.

Sometimes to love is easy, but to accept love is hard.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

Love is letting go of fear.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about-the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is 'I love you.' What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

You just have to let people love you in the way they can

Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.