Mitch Albom citations

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“Tears are okay

[Morrie Schwartz]”

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

“It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.”

“Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem”

“She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

“With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.”

“I am every age, up to my own.”

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

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

“Life goes quickly, doesn't it?”

“And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone”

“I made the wrong choice," I whispered.
My mother shook her head.
"A child should never have to choose.”

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

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

“The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.”

“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”

“This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.”

“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.”

“Lost love is still love.”

“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”

“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.”

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”

“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”

“Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.”

“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”

“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

“It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, It's just remembering how to enjoy it.”