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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

“Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Do the kinds of things that come from the heart. When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overwhelmed with what comes back.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“When you're in bed, you're dead”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you’ve find meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“Young men go to war. Sometimes because they are have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“It might have seemed ridiculous to anyone watching, this white-haired maintenance worker, all alone, making like an airplane. But the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“One withers, another grows.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“In the stories about life and death, the soul often floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world. Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Life has to end.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)