Mitch Albom Quotes
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.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“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.”
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.”
Source: For One More Day
“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)
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“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
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
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
“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.”
Source: For One More Day
Variant: I'm in love with hope.
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”
Source: For One More Day
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”
Variant: Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.
Source: The Time Keeper
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“People often belittle the place where they were born.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”
Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
