Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom. It follows the life and death of a man named Eddie who is killed and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact upon him while he was alive. It was published in 2003 by Hyperion and remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 95 weeks.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.
“Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Variant: Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."
“"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
