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We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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Going back to something is harder than you think.
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The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
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The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.
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I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.
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What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.
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Time, the Captain said, is not what you think. He sat down next to Eddie. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
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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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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
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