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You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself.

Mitch Albom

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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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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
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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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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
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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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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.
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Are you seeing anyone romantically? he inquired. No, I'm not, she replied. Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.
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Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
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