Mitch Albom Quotes

“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

“Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

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

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Context: So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. 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.

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Mitch Albom Quotes about life

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

“There are two stories for every life; the one you live & the one others tell”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

“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.”

The First Phone Call from Heaven

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

Variant: Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom Quotes about love

“Lost love is still love.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”

Source: For One More Day

“Love wins. Love always wins.”

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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“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.”

Source: For One More Day

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.”

“Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.”

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Mitch Albom Quotes

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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.”

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”

“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to somebody else.”

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“I like myself better when I'm with you.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”

Source: For One More Day

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

“Don't hang on too long, but don't let go too soon.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“There are no random acts… We are all connected… You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…”

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: "No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate on life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind."

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

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

“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.”

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.”

Source: For One More Day

“Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Well, for one thing, 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.”

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.”

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: 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.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”