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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.
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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
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As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.
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You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!
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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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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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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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sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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When you're in bed, you're dead
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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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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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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