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You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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New Jersey
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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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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He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139
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When you come to the end, that's where God begins.
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Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
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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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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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Going back to something is harder than you think.
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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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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.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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What's wrong with being number 2?
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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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.
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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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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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