Mitch Albom Quotes
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.”
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.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”
Source: For One More Day
“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”
Source: For One More Day
“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
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.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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
Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“No matter how smart she appeared, she was
fragile at her core.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“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
“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: Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven
Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story
“She had a bottomless well of love for me.”
Source: For One More Day
“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
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.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
