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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
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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 you're in bed, you're dead
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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
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Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
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Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4
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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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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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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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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
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Accept who you are and revel in it.
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You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.
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