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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 traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
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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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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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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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What in life can love not penetrate?
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.
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No one gets left behind, remember?
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Never tell a child that something it's too hard
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We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
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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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Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?
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