Mitch Albom Quotes

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“When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.”

“Love each other or perish.”

“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

“I saw in her expression that old, unshakable mountain of concern. And I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know”

“I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.”

“You can find something truly important in a minute…”

“There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”

“You know what the Buddhists say?
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent.”

“No soul remembered is ever really gone.”

“Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale… Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.”

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”

“Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”

“Things change when you're not in danger anymore.”

“Tears are okay

[Morrie Schwartz]”

“Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world.”

“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”

“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”

“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

“With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.”

“I am every age, up to my own.”

“I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.”

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

“Life goes quickly, doesn't it?”

“And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone”

“I made the wrong choice," I whispered.
My mother shook her head.
"A child should never have to choose.”

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

“You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here… Death ends life, not a relationship.”

“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”

“The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you.
Or who isn't.”

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

“The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.”

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”

“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”

“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

“It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.”

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

“All who are born are always dying.”

“Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?”

“Before you measure the years, you measure the days.”

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

“and that is what heaven is for, for understanding your life on Earth.”

“Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”