Mitch Albom: Doing

Mitch Albom is American author. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Holding anger is a poison… It eats you from inside… We think that by hating someone we hurt them… But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”

Mitch Albom

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”

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

“Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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 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

“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

“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

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

Mitch Albom

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

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

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next… It is still unwritten.”

Mitch Albom

Source: The Time Keeper