Mitch Albom Quotes

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When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.

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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said Are you going to tell me? "Yes.Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be greatful." That's it? "For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. "That's it.

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Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

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In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

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

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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want—someone to notice she was there.

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Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

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There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

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Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".

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You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

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You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

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"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"

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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

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When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

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Timing is everything. That's right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die." But how do you know it's the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. "Exactly

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There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

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I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.

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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

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People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.

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To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

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Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'.

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She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

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Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired. "No, I'm not," she replied. "Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.

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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

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