Mitch Albom Quotes

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"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

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If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

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Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?

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I made such a fool of myself, she lamented. Love does not make you a fool. He didn't love me back. That does not make you a fool, either. Just tell me … Her voice cracked. When does it stop hurting? Sometimes never.

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As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

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What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered.

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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.

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How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?

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Sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.

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We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

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Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

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It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.

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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

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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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We're gonna make up for that. We're gonna live a long time together.

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That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

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When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.

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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

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Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somewhere on the planet, someone might be as miserable as she was.

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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

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It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.

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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've find meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

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A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

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Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place." He took a breath, then added his mantra: "Love each other or die.

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Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

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Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

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You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

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