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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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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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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 often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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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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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
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Dor: there is a reason God lmits our days. Victor: why? Dor: to make each one precious.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.
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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
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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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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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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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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.
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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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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.
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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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