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The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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New Jersey
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
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I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.
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A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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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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It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
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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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The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.
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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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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?
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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
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At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
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Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.
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