Mitch Albom citations

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“All who are born are always dying.”

“Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?”

“Before you measure the years, you measure the days.”

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

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

“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?”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

“Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.”

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

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“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.”

“I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too."

What?"

I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.”

“No one gets left behind, remember?”

“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.”

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..”

“For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.”

“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

“We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”

“but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.”

“We're Tuesday people.”

“There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.”

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

“Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.”

“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.”

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.”

“Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.”

“That’s the thing when people leave us too suddenly, isn’t it? We always have so many questions.”

“The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

“Did I lose you?"
"Never.”