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As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.
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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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Secrets tear you apart.
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When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.
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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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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
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You're not going to get to college - you're not even going to be qualified, even to go to a community college, if you don't address the basic problem of literacy in America. And there's no reason - no reason - for us to have that problem.
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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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You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.
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Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
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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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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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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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I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.
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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.
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Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.
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Going back to something is harder than you think.
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But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
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