Mitch Albom: Trending quotes

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

Source: The Time Keeper

“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

Variant: We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”

Source: The Time Keeper

“You are not your past.”

Mitch Albom book Have a Little Faith

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Secrets tear you apart.”

Source: The Time Keeper

“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”

Source: For One More Day

“I am in love with Hope.”

Source: For One More Day

“I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”

Variant: I'm in love with hope.
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

Source: For One More Day

“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”

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.”

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

Source: For One More Day

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

Source: The Time Keeper

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”

Source: For One More Day

“There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie