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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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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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But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.
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I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
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I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
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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. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
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There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.
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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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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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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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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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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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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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There is no formula to relationships.
Mitch Albom
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.
Mitch Albom
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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One day can bend your life.
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Learn what you do not know. Understand the consequences of counting the moments.
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