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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
Mitch Albom
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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Mitchell David Mitch Albom
Mitchell David Albom
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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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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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No one gets left behind, remember?
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Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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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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As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.
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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
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Hello, Edward. I've been waiting for you.
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.
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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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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come
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I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.
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Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
Mitch Albom
I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
Mitch Albom
My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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