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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
Author
Columnist
Journalist
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Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
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Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
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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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the running boy is inside every man, no matter how old he gets.
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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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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
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He had his time measures and he had her. That was his life. For as long as he could remember, it had been that way, Dor and Alli, even as children. I do not want to die, she whispered. You will not die. I want to be with you. You are.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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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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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
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