Mitch Albom: Trending quotes

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.

Love , Communication

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Peace , Communication , Heart

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

Mitch Albom

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

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love , Money , Family , Parting

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

Relationship , Goodbye , For Father , Life

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

World , Soul , Business , Night

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

Mitch Albom

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Time

“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.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

Family , For Parents , Children , Youth

“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)

Hate , Thinking , Hurt , Anger

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

Love

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

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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