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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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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Mitchell David Mitch Albom
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
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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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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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We all know how to be a child.
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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
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Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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We’re gonna make up for that. We’re gonna live a long time together.
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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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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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This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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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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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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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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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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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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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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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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