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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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One day can bend your life.
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I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But 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. ' -Morrie Schwartz
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You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.
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I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.
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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
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Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'.
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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
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All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
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Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet
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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.
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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.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
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