Mitch Albom: Trending quotes (page 11)

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

“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.”

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”

“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”

“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.”

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

“It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.”

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

“All who are born are always dying.”

“Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?”

“Before you measure the years, you measure the days.”

“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.”

“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”

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