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It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.
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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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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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Secrets tear you apart.
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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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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The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
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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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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
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I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.
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