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I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all.
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It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.
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We're Tuesday people.
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He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.
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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
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Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.
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But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.
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There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
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When hope is gone, time is punishment.
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There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.
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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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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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