"Sometimes you cannot believe what you see,
you have to believe what you feel.
And if you are ever going to have people trust you,
you must feel that you can trust them, too -
even when you're in the dark.
Even when you're falling."
M. Schwartz

"Why are we embarrassed by silenced?
What comfort do we find in all the noise?"
M. Schwartz

"Let it come in.
We think we don't deserve love,
we think if we let it in we'll become too soft.
But a wise man named Levine said it right.
He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' "
M. Schwartz

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

"Do you think because I'm dying, I should not care about the world?"
M. Schwartz

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

"...be fully human."
Me misquoting M. Schwartz

"The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something that
gives you purpose and meaning."
M. Schwartz

"Love wins. Love always wins."
M. Schwartz

"To respond to ...   ...healthy needs
we must change ourselves."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"There come many points on
one's journey of spiritual growth...
... when one must take new
and unfamiliar actions
in consonance with
one's new world view."
Me misquoting M. S. Peck

"Risk change."
M. Alibrando

"Anyone who is truly concerned for
the spiritual growth of another knows,
consciously or instinctively,
that he or she can significantly
foster that growth only through
a relationship of constancy."
M. S. Peck

"Commitment is inherent in any
genuinely loving relationship."
M. S. Peck

"...commitment is the foundation,
the bedrock of any genuinely loving relationship."

"Deep commitment does not guarantee
the success of the relationship
but does help more than
any other factor to assure it."
M. S. Peck

"You mustn't be afraid of dying."
M. Schwartz

"...the culture we have does not
make people feel good about themselves.
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.
Most people can't do it.
They're more unhappy than me -
even in my condition.
I may be dying, but I am surrounded
by loving, caring souls.
How many people can say that?"
M. Schwartz

"Dying is only one thing to be sad over...
Living unhappily is something else."
me misquoting M. Schwartz

"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?"
M. Schwartz

"What happened to me?'
M. Albom

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

"The highest forms of love
are inevitably totally free choices
and not acts of conformity."
M. S. Peck

"The only real security in life
lies in relishing life's insecurity."
M. S. Peck

"Of the thousands, maybe even millions,
of risks we can take in a lifetime
the greatest is the risk of growing up."
M. S. Peck

"Thus all life itself represents a risk,
ad the more lovingly we live our lives
the more risks we take."
M. S. Peck

"When we shy away from death,
the ever-living nature of things,
we inevitably shy away from life."
M. S. Peck

"A full life will be full of pain.
But the only alternative is
not to live fully or
not to live at all."
M. S. Peck

"Move out or grow in any dimension and
pain as well as joy will be your reward."
M. S. Peck

"On some level spiritual growth,
and therefore love,
always requires courage
and involves risk."
M. S. Peck

"Courage is not the absence of fear;
it is the making of action in spite of fear,
the moving out against the resistance.
Engendered by fear into the unknown
and into the future."
M. S. Peck

"The experience of change,
of unaccustomed activity,
of being on unfamiliar ground, of
doing things differently is frightening."
M. S. Peck