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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.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“It is too late."

The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be."

He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“If we knew what comes next, we never would have worried.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“"Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen."”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“It is never too late or too soon, the old man had said. It is when it is supposed to be.”

Mitch Albom

Variant: It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
Source: The Time Keeper

“What in life can love not penetrate?”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“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?”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

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

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel

“He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“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.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

“As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper