Mitch Albom citations

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“Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.”

“All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.”

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

“What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.”

“How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.”

“Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.”

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.”

“There was always a quest for more minutes, more hours, faster progress to accomplish more in each day. The simple joy of living between summers was gone.”

“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.”

“A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.”

“A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.”

“Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.”

“The length of your days does not belong to you.”

“All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”

“I love you every day,
Mom”

“Something is always happening somewhere.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.”

“Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come”

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”

“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

“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.”

“You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.”

“There is no formula to relationships.”

“You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.”

“… the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.”