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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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Love each other or die.
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The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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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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Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
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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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You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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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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No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
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So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said Are you going to tell me? Yes.Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be greatful. That's it? For what you have.For the love you receive.And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye.Then he sighed deeply. That's it.
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Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.
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How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
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