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“She put one hand on mine. “When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Source: For One More Day

“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad…”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need… you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

“Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
Source: For One More Day

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

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

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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

“Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven