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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Lost love is still love.
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The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.
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Accept who you are and revel in it.
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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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Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
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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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No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you.
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He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.
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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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Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.
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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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