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You are not your past.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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New Jersey
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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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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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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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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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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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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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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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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.
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Accept who you are and revel in it.
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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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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
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Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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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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What if I lose you? You can't lose your mother, Charley.
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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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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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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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