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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.
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My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).
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You marked the minutes, the old man said. But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?
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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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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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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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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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sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
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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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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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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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