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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
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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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I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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The length of your days does not belong to you.
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You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.
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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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Life has to end, love doesn't.
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My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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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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Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.
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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
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