Mitch Albom: Quotes about life

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

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.”

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

“You can go through 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.”

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

“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.”

Source: The Time Keeper

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

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

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

Source: For One More Day

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

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel

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

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Life goes quickly, doesn't it?”

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

Source: For One More Day

“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.”

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“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.”

Source: For One More Day

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

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”

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

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.”

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven