make a list of 100 best quotes

“A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.”

“if you don’t work on important problems, it’s unlikely that you’ll do important work” – Dr. Richard Hamming

“The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.” – Lao-tse

“Pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“Be compassionate and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“People are only mean when they’re threatened and that’s what our culture does. That’s what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you would be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“It is impossible for the old not to envy the young. But the issue is to accept who you are and revel in that. This is your time to be in your thirties. I had my time to be in my thirties, and now is my time to be seventy-eight.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth…it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

Yes, I said, but if aging was so valuable, why do people always say, “Oh, if I were young again.” You never hear people say, “I wish I was sixty-five.”

“You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven’t found meaning. Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five.” – Tuesdays with Morrie

“Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. But there’s a better approach. To know you’re going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you’re living.
Do what the Buddhists do. Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, ‘Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?” – Tuesdays with Morrie