Mitch Albom citations

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“The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone—or any society—determine those for you.”

“Scenery without solace is meaningless.”

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

“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.”

“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”

“You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really "starting over." More like "continuing without.”

“You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become… You are not your past!”

“She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

“Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.”

“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”

“He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.”

“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”

“Be compassionate… and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.”

“I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle.. the nights i can't remember.. the mornings i slept thru.. all the time spent running from myself.”

“Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”

“She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.
And when hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

“But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.”

“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.
“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”

“Love is the only rational act.”

“People often belittle the place where they were born.”

“But our eyes are different, what you see ain't what I see.”

“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.”

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

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

“Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”