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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.
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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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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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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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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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When you come to the end, that's where God begins.
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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
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No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
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