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You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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I think, in general, the sports I've enjoyed covering the most have been the offbeat ones. The more popular, mainstream, the less I like them because they're more, they're more structured and the players don't have much interesting to say because they're interviewed all the time.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
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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 way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
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I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children and our children are the most important thing, but if that's the case, how come we never hear more about education as an election issue?
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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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If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
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But man invents nothing God did not create first.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
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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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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.
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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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