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

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.
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Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
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We all know how to be a child.
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For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
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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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I don't mean you disregard every rule of your community. I don't go around naked, for example. I don't run through red lights. The little things, I can obey. But the big things- how we think, what we value- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone-or any society- determine those for you. ' -Morrie Schwartz
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
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People often belittle the place where they were born.
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The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.
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There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
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I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.
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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.
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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
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Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
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Death is the end of a lifetime, not the end of a relationship.
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