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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.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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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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The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
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sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
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I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
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Timing is everything. That´s right. Which is why our sages tell us to repent exactly one day before we die. But how do you know it´s the day before you die? I asked. He raised his eyebrows. Exactly
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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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What's wrong with being number 2?
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There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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Kids chase the love that eludes them.
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We all know how to be a child.
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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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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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
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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.
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