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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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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said Are you going to tell me? Yes.Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be greatful. That's it? For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. That's it.
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The length of your days does not belong to you.
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Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
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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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How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.
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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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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Remember me for these days, not the old ones.
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What in life can love not penetrate?
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.
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Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
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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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