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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.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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We all know how to be a child.
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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
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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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Remember, the only difference between 'marital' and 'martial' is where you put the 'i'.
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
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I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
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All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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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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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
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