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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
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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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Don't get too attached to anything.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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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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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.
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Never tell a child that something it's too hard
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).
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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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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
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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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