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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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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
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When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
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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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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
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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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All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
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There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
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No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
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The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down.
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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.
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Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.
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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. I do not want to die, she whispered. You will not die. I want to be with you. You are.
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The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.
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