Mitch Albom: Trending quotes (page 7)

“The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own.”

“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.”

“All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.”

“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”

“Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.”

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.”

“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”

“But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

“Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.”

“The length of your days does not belong to you.”

“All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”

“I love you every day,
Mom”

“Something is always happening somewhere.”

“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.”