Mitch Albom Quotes

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Mitch Albom
You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

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You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.

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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

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There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

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No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

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This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

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Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.

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Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it.

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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

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Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

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The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.

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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

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

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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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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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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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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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The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

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My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

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By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curb—more leaves than I remembered from my autumns here—andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you haven't been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'.

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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.

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The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

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He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. "I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

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