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Mitchell David Albom is an American author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 39 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays, and films. Albom lives with his wife Janine Sabino in Detroit, Michigan. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. May 1958
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Mitch Albom Quotes

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

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

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

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

Mitch Albom

The Time Keeper
Variant: But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
He 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.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“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.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Variant: 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.
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

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

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

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

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

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

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“I love you every day,
Mom”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Something is always happening somewhere.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

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

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Source: For One More Day

“Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time. When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper

“You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“There is no formula to relationships.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“… the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

“sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Are you seeing anyone romantically?" he inquired.
"No, I'm not," she replied.
"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“It's the thinking that gets you killed.”

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 but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”

Mitch Albom

The First Phone Call from Heaven

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a CERTAIN love.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“What's wrong with being number 2?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie