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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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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.
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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.
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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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There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.
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The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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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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Something is always happening somewhere.
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You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.
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We all know how to be a child.
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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
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